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Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
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Module Title Integrative Psychotherapy 2
Module Code NS5018
School School of Nursing and Human Sciences
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Module Co-ordinatorSemester 1: Rosaleen McElvaney
Semester 2: Rosaleen McElvaney
Autumn: Rosaleen McElvaney
Module TeacherRosaleen McElvaney
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Compatibles None
Incompatibles None
Description
The purpose of this module is to advance a critical understanding of how participants can use an adaptable and collaborative integrative framework to psychotherapy assessment, case-formulation, treatment planning and outcome. In this module students will develop knowledge and skills in the methods of advanced integrative psychotherapy in the context of working with a diversity of clients with complex, multifaceted and trauma based needs. The approach adopted will address the needs of participants as theoretically informed and skills based integrative psychotherapy practitioners. Students are expected to attend lectures, seminars, discussion and personal awareness groups and to engage in on line self directed learning activities supplemented by reading the relevant theoretical and empirical literature.

Learning Outcomes
1. Critically evaluate how early developmental experiences influence characterological style and pathway specific pathological organisations described using DSM – IV Axis-II personality disorders.
2. Explain how the psychological, neurobiological and psychopathological substrates of complex trauma impact on the capacity to relate to self, other and world.
3. Demonstrate a reflective appreciation of the anologue between the intersubjective primary relationship and the therapeutic relationship
4. Analyse emerging neuroscientific evidence which posits that Axis-I and Axis-II disorders are disorders of affect dysregulation and appreciate the implications for psychotherapy practice.
5. Synthesise the principles of an integrative traumagenic-neurodevelopmental model to make meaning of dissociated states of mind including experiences synonymous with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
6. Apply the principles of an integrative and adaptable personality-developmental framework to assessment, case-formulation, treatment planning and outcome.



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture16Didactic teaching
Tutorial16In vivo work shops
Seminars6Seminar discussion groups
Moodle discussion5Topical discussion debate
Group work7Personal awareness groups
Independent learning time25Self-directed learning reviewing and reading empirical, theoretical literature and course material as assigned
Total Workload: 75

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Introduction and review.
Students will be introduced to developmental theories of personality structure – character styles, psychopathology, assessment and treatment, drawing on the empirical and theoretical literature as well as their own personal developmental experiences..

A triadic model of the therapeutic relationship.
Critically examine the origins and controversies of intersubjectivity theory and its contribution to contemporary advances in psychotherapeutic practice..

The neuro-developmental sequelae of trauma.
Draw on emerging neuro-scientific evidence to examine the neurobiology of trauma. Contrast the difference between the storage and retrieval of non-traumatic explicit verbal memories and traumatic implicit non-verbal memories. Outline trauma based psychopathology and the implications for body-focused sensorimotor treatment..

Posttraumatic stress disorder and dissociative phenomenon.
Critically evaluate and distinguish between, the aetiology, psychopatholoy and prognosis of posttraumatic stress disorder, complex interpersonal trauma and dissociative states phenomenon including schizophrenia – schizophreniform spectrum disorders..

Assessment and case formulation.
Contrast a medically oriented descriptive diagnostic approach with a Psycho-diagnostic/characterlogical integrative frameworks for assessment, case formulation and treatment planning using in vivo case examples from students clinical practice..

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight0%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories;
1 = A resit is available for all components of the module
2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module
3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
This module is category 1
Indicative Reading List
  • Gabbard, G.O: 0, Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. American, Psychiatric Press, Washington DC – London,
  • Johnson, S.M.: 1994, Character styles, Norton, New York: London,
  • Kernberg, O. F.: 0, The psychotherapeutic treatment of borderline patients, In J. Paris (ed.), Borderline personality disorder (pp. 261 – 284), American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC:,
  • Mace, C.: 1995, The Art and Science of Assessment in Psychotherapy, Routledge, London,
  • McWilliams, N.: 1994, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process, Guilford: London.,
  • Ogden, P., Minton, K., & Pain, C.: 2006, Trauma and the Body, Norton, London: New York.,
  • Orange, D.M., Atwood, G.E., & Stolorow, R.D: 1997, Working Intersubjectively, The Analytic Press., Hillsdale, NJ,
  • Schore, A.: 2003, Affect regulation and repair of the self, Norton, London,
  • Van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E.R.S., Steele, K.: 2006, The Haunted Self Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization., Norton & Company, New York: London.,
  • Alliance of Psychoanalytic Organisations: 2006, Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental & Learning Disorders.,
Other Resources
860, Journal, 0, Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 861, Journal, 0, Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 862, Journal, 0, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice., 863, Journal, 0, Journal of Counselling Psychology, 864, Journal, 0, The Counselling Psychologist, 865, Journal, 0, Europeam Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 866, Journal, 0, Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 867, Journal, 0, Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 868, Journal, 0, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 869, On-line data base, 0, Cochrane Library, 870, On-line data base, 0, Counselling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works, 871, On-line data base, 0, CINAHL plus with full text, 872, On-line data base, 0, MEDLINE® at OVID, 873, On-line data base, 0, Philosopher's Index, 874, On-line data base, 0, PsycArticles, 875, On-line data base, 0, PsycINFO, 876, On-line data base, 0, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 877, On-line data base, 0, SAGE journals online, 878, On-line data base, 0, ScienceDirect,
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