EDF5545 · Cognitive behaviour therapy

Overview

This unit will provide you with contemporary cognitive behavioural therapies knowledge including cognitive therapy, rational emotive behaviour therapy, behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, reality therapy, dialectic behaviour therapy and solution-focused therapy. In this unit, you will develop an understanding of these behaviour therapy models and their application. The strengths and limitations of each approach will be examined, and the role of the counsellor within each therapeutic approach will be reviewed.

Areas of study: Counselling

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. identify the features of selected contemporary cognitive behavioural therapies
2. demonstrate the practical application of CBT techniques
3. translate theoretical learning into practical application
4. apply cognitive, reality and behavioural therapies in counselling role plays
5. conceptualise client issues within a CBT framework to facilitate understanding and interventions.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester comprising: (a.) Contact hours for on-campus students: • equivalent to 36 hours of engagement in online, face-to-face or blended platforms (b.) Additional requirements (all students): • independent study to make up the required minimum hours during the semester. For the unit teaching schedule, please visit the timetable.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.