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