Systemic Practice (Intermediate)

Over the year you’ll develop your understanding of how to engage families, couples and individuals in systemic therapeutic work and you’ll develop therapeutic skills with families, couples and individuals and apply systemic theory and practice in your work contexts.
The course considers key issues in the application of systemic theory and practice to your work, with further development of self-reflexive skills and ethical perspectives informed by systemic theory. Themes are followed each term with an initial focus on your personal and professional development as a systemic practitioner, followed in the second term by further study of the theory of systemic practice and related skills. The final term considers the application of systemic theory and practice in a range of health and social care settings and your own therapeutic practice. Throughout the course you will be encouraged to develop a commitment to actively promote ethical, anti-discriminatory practice and to highlight and critique culturally-based assumptions in your practice.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Intermediate Course in Systemic Practice 30 credits

For more information on typical modules, read Systemic Practice (Intermediate) in the course catalogue

Learning and teaching

You'll be taught through lectures, practical classes, and group tutorials. We make extensive use of IT and a wide range of material to enable students to study at their own pace and in their own time to enhance and extend the material taught formally. You will adapt and integrate theretical concepts with your therapeutic practice with opportunities to discuss new and challenging ideas in relation to your own practice and personal and professional development and also to develop your psychotherapeutic skills through a mixture of experiential exercises (e.g. roleplay) and clinical case discussion. You are also required to undertake 60 hours of systemic therapeutic practice in your own professional agency.

Assessment

We monitor your progress through attendance, participation in lectures, and performance within small group tutorials in which formative feedback is provided by your tutor. Progress is also monitored in feedback on written assignments and the learning portfolio, as well as on your progress in recording at least 60 hours of systemic practice during the course period.