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Details for SSC538 Working with Relationships

Enhancing your ability to navigate relationship dynamics is important for students aiming to specialise in relationship counselling. In this subject, you will delve into the theories underpinning relationship challenges and systems, developing skills in assessment, treatment planning, and interventions. The unit includes practical role-plays to hone your counselling techniques and also focuses on creating resources to support clients effectively.

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: SSC538
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Sharon Garro

Prerequisite

The following subject is a prerequisite:

  • SSC521 Foundations of Professional Practice

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Examine theories that underpin working with relationships and develop an understanding of the impact of systems and relationship challenges;
  2. Develop knowledge and skills in relationship counselling based on a range of modalities, including assessment, treatment planning and intervention;
  3. Analyse, critique and practice skills via counselling role plays based on acquired skills;
  4. Develop resources to assist in relationships counselling, incorporating appropriate theories and practices.

Subject Content

  • From Individual to Relationship Work
  • Definitions
  • Principles of Interpersonal Intervention
  • Gender Differences
  • Couples Assessment
  • The Need for Evidence-Based Therapy
  • Why Couples Lose Hope
  • The Process of Therapy
  • Regrettable Incidents
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Strengthening Relationships, including Family
  • Sex and Intimacy
  • Forgiveness and the Moral Compass
  • Creating Shared Meaning in Couples and Families
  • Therapy Models: EFT, CBT for Couples & Families, Group Therapy
  • Gottman Therapy, Best Practice

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Onsite (face-to-face)
  • Online (e-Learning)
  • Intensives

This subject is typically online-live with mandatory attendance.

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  • Presentation, PowerPoint and Resource (30%)
  • Critical Reflection (20%)
  • Assessment Interview, Notes and Critical Analysis (50%)

Prescribed Text

  • Gottman, J.S., & Gottman, J.M. (2015). 10 principles for doing effective couples therapy. W.W. Norton & Company.

Please consult your instructor prior to purchasing any texts