Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Specialisation
This unit offers students a thorough and comprehensive foundation in Psychodynamic Therapeutic methods, micro-skills, and applications essential to working within a variety of clinical manifestations.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate and evaluate a client for assessment purposes and apply a Psychodynamic Formulation as a working hypothesis and a treatment plan
- Apply the terminology and concepts of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy to a range of clinical presentations
- Critique and evaluate the approach that differing Psychodynamic methods can respond to and treat differing clinical manifestations in the clinical setting
- Identify and understand the differing symptomatology and presentation of clients from a developmental deficit and trauma perspective and how to work within the Psychodynamic Frame
- Examine each theory and method in relation to therapeutic process and identify common issues and difficulties that may be experienced in the application of therapeutic processses
Content Areas
- Psychodynamic Assessment and Formulation
- Boundaries, The Therapeutic Frame and Termination of Treatment
- Affect Regulation
- Developmental Trauma
- Clinical Manifestations: PTSD and Dissociation
- Clinical Manifestations: Depression and Anxiety
- Clinical Manifestations: OCD, Avoidant Personality and Dependent Personality Disorder
- Clinical Manifestations: Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
- Clinical Manifestations: Addiction and Eating Disorders
- Clinical Manifestations: The Suicidal Client and The Sexually Abused Client
- Family Therapy and Group Therapy
- Ethics
Unit Duration and Workload
This unit involves a total of 36 hours of face to face delivery or self-directed study including educator contact in flexible delivery modes, generating a further 120 hours of self-study per unit including research and related study activities, including assessment. This translates as 13 hours per week for the unit.