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This Unit is archived with an end date of 07/06/2023

Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-AW5-PLACEMENT-2021-ONGOING

MURDOCH-DE7-PLACEMENT-2021-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Completion of all units comprising Graduate Diploma and enrolment in Master of Creative Arts Therapies or by permission of the Creative Arts Therapies Academic Chair. Students are required to provide a current Police Clearance as well as Working with Children Check prior to enrolling in this clinical placement unit.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Be sufficiently open and engaged while working with a range of clients with different presenting issues and relationship styles.

2.

Demonstrate capacity to recognise personal material in therapeutic work and the ability to develop a professional therapeutic stance by engaging with learning experiences to explore the relationship between personal experiences and therapeutic work.

3.

Build a therapeutic working alliance that is sufficiently containing, promotes client safety and opens up opportunities for therapeutic exploration of client material.

4.

Develop working agreements with the client about the processes and outcomes of creative arts psychotherapy.

5.

Develop psychodynamic case formulations that are used within the therapist-client and supervisory relationships to support the process of deepening therapeutic engagement and increasing client capacity for meaning-making and self-insight.

6.

Describe your client work to your peers in the unit in verbal and written formats, with confidence and interest in the new ideas this process generates and demonstrate capacity to integrate learning from this process into clinical work.

7.

Engage openly, self critically and reflectively with the supervisory processes available within the unit to work with and through therapeutic dilemmas.

8.

Engage as a professional creative arts therapist in the contextual issues regarding client work, including but not limited to: making and changing appointments; correspondence; client case notes and records; report writing; contracting; materials use and management in and outside of sessions; using practices in place for protecting client confidentiality; and in relating to and working with colleagues and other staff.

9.

Develop the ethical and professional attributes detailed within the ANZACATA Code of Conduct and ethical considerations with critical and creative thinking.

10.

Social and civic responsibility consistent with Murdoch Graduate Attributes and as detailed within the ANZACATA Code of Conduct.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Key Topics
Clinical contexts for therapy Client diversity
Professional workplace practices Case work
Case development
Stages of therapeutic process Clinical supervision practices Professional Ethics
Anti-oppressive practice

Concepts
Applied clinical assessment
Applied psychodynamic case formulation Applied case management practices
Systemic engagement (collegiality, teamwork and organisational factors in therapeutic settings) Clinical and professional formation
Introduction to group and 1:1 supervision practices Ethical and professional practice dilemmas

Academic Debates
Conceptualising therapeutic dilemmas
Psychodynamic principles of therapeutic relationship building and the use of creative arts Client diversity, cultural fit and cultural encapsulation
Individual approaches and the place for dyadic, family, community, system and organisational levels of intervention
Professional formation and the art of therapy

Other notes:

Students in this unit undertake Creative Arts Psychotherapy work with vulnerable members of the public: all students will be assessed through staff review, and in some cases interview, for their readiness to undertake this unit. Students may be asked to undertake extra preparation.