Elements and Performance Criteria
- Apply appropriate family counselling model
- Apply counselling approaches in a family counselling setting
- Determine from a range of counselling theories the most appropriate counselling approach to meet client need
- Develop a conceptualisation of the problem with regard to family context
- Develop an hypothesis to explain the presenting problem
- Identify individual behaviours and communication transactions that contribute to conflict
- Identify family relationship patterns and themes and articulate these back to the client family in an empathic way
- Identify problems with abstract thinking
- Implement the components of a family therapy session
- Use hypothesis to generate relevant questions
- Use case conceptualisations to develop therapeutic options
- Assess onset of presenting problems and explore relationships changes around it
- Track a sequence within a family dynamic
- Explore the relationships web using a variety of questions
- Explore behaviours, meaning and relationships using a variety of questions
- Develop a systemic intervention
- Monitor and review use of counselling approaches and theories in family counselling contexts
- Utilise peer support structures to test theoretical applications
- Seek out and access supervision opportunities on a regular basis to assess effectiveness of practice applications
- Use self awareness and own family of origin theory to identify and refer clients with whom it is inappropriate to work
- Undertake professional development on a regular basis to increase theoretical knowledge base and improve counselling approaches
- Monitor and evaluate interventions for consistency, congruency with counselling approach and theory of change, cultural contextual relevance, and agreed counselling goals