Unit 4- Overview of different methods of psychotherapy and personal change

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Course material overview

There are ten weeks, covering different methods of psychotherapy and personal change. We think of them as different places on "Therapy Island". They are:

• Week 1- Introduction to therapy: Intro Bridge

• Week 2- Short-term therapies and predicaments: Panic Woods

• Week 3- Addictions, cravings and recovery: Addiction Railway

• Week 4- Personality: Character Fair

• Week 5- Personality Development: Personality Circus

• Week 6- Psychodynamic Theories: Psychoanalysts' Camp

• Week 7- Schema-based Therapies: Schema Casino

• Week 8- Group and Systems Therapies: Group Stadium

• Week 9- Existential and Narrative Therapies: Narrative Theme Park

• Week 10- Conclusions: Therapy Zoo

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Aims

This unit will provide students with an overview of of how concerns, values, emotional flavours, and narrative can be used to compare different practices of psychotherapy

Resources

You will not be required to buy any books, but you may want to look at the main text for the unit which is:

Tantam, D. (2002) Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework. Cambridge.