(Award available for year: Master of Science)
Students will be able to:
LO7 - Critically evaluate their activity in the delivery of effective and theoretically coherent systemic interventions accounting for the approach, method and techniques used in their own practice of systemic family psychotherapy
LO8 - Demonstrate ethical accountability and autonomous professionalism by placing public/client/service user needs at the centre of practice whilst adhering to legal and professional standards, workplace routines, policies and protocols and a commitment to anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice in systemic family psychotherapy.
LO9 - Undertake effective systemically informed risk assessments, case formulation and case management plans to inform multi agency understandings, decision making and actions.
LO10 - Offer specialist systemic perspectives, consultation and training to other professionals.
LO11 - Knowledge of systemic and other perspectives on common mental health problems and practice effectively and ethically with others in multi-disciplinary settings where differing understandings co-exist.
LO12 - Develop and maintain therapeutic relationships, working collaboratively with people in highly distressing, emotionally charged and challenging circumstances, whilst managing their own, and other’s wellbeing.
LO13 - Conduct research relevant to the field of systemic family psychotherapy including assessment of ethical and governance issues, and critically evaluate findings, methodology and implications for practice.
Skills Learning Outcomes
Academic Skills
AS1 - Critical thinking: Critically evaluate systemic family psychotherapy and related literature including research and apply this to the practice of systemic family psychotherapy.
AS2 - Presentation skills: Present the theory of systemic family psychotherapy in a clear, concise, and structured manner, in both verbal and written form.
AS3 - Academic writing and language: Write in a clear, concise, and structured manner, accurate systemic psychotherapy language to communicate psychotherapeutic concepts.
AS4 - Ethics: Identify and challenge social discourses and power practices that marginalise and oppress people creating inequity in mental health experience and healthcare.
AS5 - Information searching: Undertake a relevant literature review to support practice development and submission of assessments.
AS6 - Academic integrity and referencing: Engage in good academic practice with accurate referencing of the work of others and avoiding plagiarism in any form.
Work ready skills
WR1 - Reflection: Practice within their level of competence, manage their fitness to practice and act accordingly if impaired by health or related constraints.
WR2 - Communication: Communicate information related to systemic family psychotherapy in a clear, concise, and structured manner, both in verbal and written forms including clear, timely and factual clinical records.
WR3 - Time management, planning and organizing: Manage time efficiently to prepare for lectures, tutorials, clinical practice and supervision by reading and reviewing given literature, reviewing practice recordings and feedback and preparation of assignments to meet deadlines for submission of assessments.
WR4 - Team work and collaboration: Work positively and effectively with others and collaborate with other healthcare professionals bringing different perspectives and contributions.
WR5 - Problem solving and analytical skills: Gather, analyse and synthesise information relevant to service, clinical issues and research and use this in generating solutions to problems in systemic family psychotherapy clinical practice.
WR6 - Active learning: Identify and critically evaluate their own learning needs using models of adult learning and reflective practice to engage in the learning and development process.
The assessment range reflects professional practice, with assessments which demonstrate skills in psychotherapy practice that are supported by relevant and up to date theory and assess the student’s capacity to critique their developing knowledge and practice including the ability to understand their own influence on the psychotherapeutic process. The development of this skill supports the likelihood of safe and effective professional practice upon completion of the training.
In professional practice of a talking therapy the student is required to use research to provide evidence –based practice and to be able to conduct research if required to do so. The qualified systemic family psychotherapist is required to account for their practice verbally and in writing and the mode of assessment on this programme uses these same methods.
Formative assessment is frequent, and feedback is detailed specific and developmental giving students' clear direction for development needed for success on summative assessment. Successful summative demonstrates that students the PSRB requirements for registration as safe and effective independent practitioners of systemic family psychotherapy, fit for practice in NHS, social care or independent practice.
The assessment of students in the final year of the programme has been designed to provide formative and summative assessments that assess the developing knowledge, skills and professional attitudes of the systemic family psychotherapist for completion of training and readiness for independent practice.
Competence Standards
1. Demonstrate ethical accountability and professionalism by placing the family and service needs at the centre of practice whilst adhering to professional standards, workplace routines, policies and protocols.
2. Analyse and synthesise complex assessment material to communicate theoretically informed hypotheses and collaborative formulations of human relational distress.
3. Undertake effective systemic risk assessments, risk formulation and risk management to inform multi agency understandings, decision making and actions.
4. Plan a broad range of theoretically informed and evidence-based systemic psychotherapy interventions, and identify the appropriate packages of therapeutic and or multi-agency care.
5. Implement effective agreed systemic psychotherapeutic interventions, revising therapeutic plans as appropriate during the work, including utilising outcome measures and planning for endings.
6. Develop and maintain therapeutic relationships, working collaboratively within highly distressing, emotionally charged and challenging circumstances, whilst managing own, and other’s wellbeing.
7. Demonstrate and maintain positive working relationships, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in one’s own working practices.
8. Undertake research relevant to own field of systemic practice.
9. Create and maintain accurate records that adhere to professional and organisational codes of practice.
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