School Of Social Sciences And PsychologyPractising Research and Researching PracticeWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 102358.1
Discipline: COUNSELLING
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Concurrent or previous study of at least one first year postgraduate unit in counselling or art therapy theory and practice.
Equivalent Units
102177 - Advanced Social Research Methods
Prerequisite
102357 Ethics and Diversity in Research and Therapy
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must be enrolled in 4595 Master of Art Therapy or 1817 Master of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
About this Unit
This unit equips Therapy Studies students with the conceptual frameworks and skills needed to conduct basic research in the areas of counselling, psychotherapy and the art therapies. The question ‘How do we know what we know?’ becomes the connecting thread throughout an introduction to quantitative, qualitative and mixed method approaches to practitioner research. Building on considerations from the prerequisite unit 102357 Ethics and Diversity in Research and Therapy and complementing the project-based unit 102178 Critical and Creative Enquiry, students will develop their understanding of research as a scholarly, professional, social and intersubjective practice. They will learn to generate answerable research questions and a coherent research proposal within appropriate intellectual and methodological frameworks.