Systemic Practice in Family Therapy: Concepts and Issues/Including diversity issues and ethics in family therapy

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Objectives

 * Conduct a collaborative assessment of families to determine: their main concerns, their level of engagement with change, who to include, whether the work is likely to be short or long term
 * Assess for safety and risk while building the therapeutic relationship

Assignment

 * 1) on-line quiz
 * 2) 2000 word essay

Topics and activities

 * Lectures on questioning to elicit factors important for determining the most useful therapeutic approach.
 * Lectures on working with a number of different scenarios where risk is a factor, and how to work with this while maintaining and even building on engagement.
 * On-line forum discussion and/or webinar discussion
 * Case studies, written and video-taped
 * Readings
 * Personal reflection and journalling