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Distance Education Course -Study Family Counselling at Home and Online
Develop a better understanding of family Dynamics, and a capacity to analyze and facilitate solutions to problems that emerge in modern families.
Lesson Content and Structure
There are 10 lessons in this course:
- Nature & Scope of Families
- Different types of families
- Traditional Family Structures
- Family Systems
- Cultural variations
- Family Lifecycles
- Family Dynamics
- Crises
- Changing cultures (immigrant families)
- Evolving Structures (Religion, new siblings, departing siblings, changing parents, incoming grandparents)
- Breakdowns
- Merging two families
- Abuse
- Violence
- Death
- Illness
- Changing location (losing friends etc)
- Changing income (loss of job etc)
- Disintigration & Reintigration
- History
- How are dynamics different & similar today to in the past.
- How did we cope with family problems in the past in different places, cultures etc.
- What can we learn from this? How can we draw strength from knowing all this is not new.
- Identifying Problems
- Patterns
- Critical incidents
- Long standing incidents
- Common problems for families
- Common problems for couples
- Support Structures
- What support services might be accessed
- Extended family
- Community services
- Social networks
- Religion
- Types of counselling, -individual, Group Work etc (incl. problems with Group work) etc.
- Approaches to Family Therapy I
- Approaches to Family Therapy II
- Conducting Initial Interviews/Sessions
- Considering Solutions
- Determining Roles
- Establishing Rules
- Case Study
- Consider a situation establish & consider alternative strategies & select a strategy.
Duration: 100 hours
Course Aims
Describe family diversity in terms of a variety of factors including structure and function.
Explain the interactions and motivations at work in different families.
Describe how we have dealt with family problems in the past; then evaluate the results of these past strategies, and learn from those results.
Determine precisely what problems exist in a family; and evaluate the relative significance of those different problems.
Identify and compare support options that may be available to a family with problems
Understand what is meant by a family systems approach to counselling and describe different theoretical perspectives.
Describe further theoretical approaches to family therapy and understand the usefulness of an integrated approach.
Plan the initial interview for a couple or for a family, in need of counselling.
Identify optional approaches for counselling a family or couple with problems.
Plan a program of counselling and if relevant, other strategies, to address a family or couple in crisis.
Scope of Family Counselling
The main goal of family therapy is to encourage the adults in the family to resolve any issues they may have had as a result of their own family history, and to help them to rewrite their own emotional stories. Therefore, the therapist has to first identify the problems in an initial interview. The therapist will try to identify themes from the past of both adults. These themes may have been brought to the present family situation by one or both adults. As such, the aim of the first session is to understand the problems in a historical context, begin to reframe the problems, develop a positive relationship between the partners, and to help each partner to identify the fact that themes from their families are affecting the problem and their ability to deal with the problem. They will also construct a genogram to help the family and the therapist to identify the key family members that are involved in the problem, and therefore those family members who may become involved in the therapy. In this form of therapy, therefore, it is important that the therapist sees the whole family together from the beginning. If therapy begins with only part of the family it can create a dysfunctional triangle between the therapist, one member of the family and another, if certain members are missing.
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