A ten week course covering the following:
- Philosophical treatments of morality and ethics: universal or conventional? Cultural and social factors in ethics.
- Key elements of professional ethics: consent and autonomy. Research ethics. Some great research scandals.
- Confidentiality non-maleficence
- Autonomy and power. Capacity, and decision making. Advanced directives, powers of attorney
- Neo-Aristotelian approaches. Care, beneficence, and non-maleficence. Risks of exploitation and the role of an ethics code in protecting children and vulnerable adults. Parens patriae and safeguarding, Independent safeguarding agency.
- Social and political approaches. Principles of justice and human rights.
- Society and culture. Emic and etic approaches. Big group and snall group sociology.
- Are there cultural and social universals, and therefore the possibility of a transcultural psychotherapy.
- Theorizing and practising between cultures. Hegemony. Cultural competence
- Social institutions. How to embed ethical awareness and cultural competence in professional practice.
A ten week course covering :
- Patterns of development: linear, cyclical, other
- Distress and disability: links with development
- Physical development and links with psychosocial development
- Stage theories and their impact on child-rearing customs and educational practice
- Social development
- Emotional development
- Aging, changing social expectations, and developmental challenges
- Developmental theory in psychology and psychotherapy practice
- Transcending development: crisis, trauma, and recovery
- Tackling some questions about development: what is its aim? What are we developing into?
A ten week course, covering different viewpoints on well-being and relationship to health:
- Introduction, definitions, and interrelations between topics
- philosophy
- health economics
- psychology
- medicine
- spirituality
- psychotherapy, counselling, and coaching
- values
- relationships
- being well remembered
A ten week course, covering different viewpoints on existential and human issues:
- Do people have a nature? What happens to it during crises or transitions, or when facing death? What part do emotions play in resolving these crises?
- Anxiety in depth
- Sexuality: does sexual passion exist to provoke existential crises, or does it hold relationshiPTS together and so reduce crisis?
- Where am I going in my life? Meaning
- Life event theory and its link to crisis theory
- Large brains and large social groups: do they determine what is human about human nature?
- Intimate communication and bonding; anonymous communication and individuation
- Intimacy
- Loss
- How and when we find out who we really are: if we really are anyone, or if we really ever know
A ten week course covering:
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- scheme for classifying and analysing psychotherapy and counselling approaches
- why interpersonal problems do not spontaneously resolve, and theories of people getting ‘stuck’
- addiction as an explanation of ‘stuckness’
- personality and its use as an explanation of resistance or inability to change, or as a source of resilience
- theories of how personality develops and how, if at all, it changes
- psychoanalytic theories of personality in professional practice and popular culture
- Schema theory and cognitive approaches to psychotherapy
- Group psychotherapy and theories of interpersonal change factors
- Narrative theories
- Synthesis