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| Semester: | Summer 2020 |
| Number: | 0627-618-001 |
| Instructor: | Stacy Kurtz |
| Note: | Online, Asynchronous |
| Location: | Online |
| Credits: | 1 |
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| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
In this relationship for learning, students will step back with a trained supervisor to contemplate the termination phase in their work with dyads and children, refine reflective function, gain insight, solve problems and hone the therapeutic use of self in the service of deepening reflective practice during termination. |
| Learning Goals: |
1. Be self-observing and reflective of their impact of termination on children and families with trauma. 2. Be attuned to and manage the forces of transference and countertransference arising in the course of clinical work gaining awareness of how personal characteristics, feeling states, culture, style may unconsciously contribute to the work with children and families unique to the termination phase 3. Define and maintain appropriate boundaries across in a variety of roles and settings with attention to termination 4. Apply self-knowledge and reflective function/mindfulness to better understand families, therapeutic process and parallel process in a variety of settings and peculiar to the termination phase5. Reflect on their own disciplinary scope of practice within an interdisciplinary context and appropriately negotiate referrals and second opinions when appropriate 6. Create a climate of safety and confidentiality and listen with full emotional availability, actively gaining an empathic understanding of children and families specific to the termination phase. 7. Frame the work in the context of the parent-child relationship in spite of multiple needs and distractions with different presenting problems8. Objectively assess the strengths and limitations of the practice setting and appropriately act in the best interest of the child/family. 9. Tolerate strong feeling, serve as a container for affect and projection and manage ambivalence and ambiguity arising from the clinical work particularly during the termination phase.10. Apply an understanding of cultural competence to form meaning and interpret clinical material, communicate effectively, establish positive relationships with families and demonstrate respect for the uniqueness of each client family’s culture11. Organize and present case formulations, interpret case material from competing perspectives and explain why a particular course of action was chosen based on presenting problems12. Make effective use of reflective supervision in a variety of settings with a range of families *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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