Systemic Practice (Families and Couples) Graduate Certificate

This course introduces a systemic approach for professionals working in a variety of contexts with families and couples. The course covers theoretical and practical issues involved in the application of systemic principles when working with families and couples. The course is designed to provide you with both a theoretical base and a skills training, with the opportunity to relate this study to the professional context in which you work. Both experiential and didactic teaching methods are employed.
The course is suitable for professionals who wish to increase their capacity to work directly with families and couples. This includes nurses, social workers, teachers, counsellors, other health professionals and those in front line services that wish to work systemically with clients.
The course stresses the importance of understanding professional contexts and the way in which they relate to your work with clients. Particular emphasis is placed on thinking about ways of working which meet the needs of the most disadvantaged client groups and which take account of the legislative frameworks within which practitioners will have to work. Attention to issues of difference and the promotion and development of anti-discriminatory practice are central to the course philosophy and permeate all aspects of the teaching. Units

• Foundation Level Skills Unit (Families And Couples) (ASS) Compulsory
• Foundation Level Theory Unit (Families And Couples) (ASS) Compulsory