SOSV3151 Family Treatment with Children and Parents Course description

This course offers an overview and adopts a critical perspective of different types of mapping, testing, and evaluation of health-related activities at individual, group, and society levels. The course covers mapping, testing, and evaluating quality of life, mental health, physical health, functional ability, and disease mechanisms. It will take a critical look at the classification of measurement methods as disease-specific vs. generic, and self-reported vs. performance-based, as well as screening vs. diagnostics, quantitative vs. qualitative evaluation, and standardisation vs. individualisation.

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After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has knowledge of

• methods and concepts in family therapy, with a focus on children and parents

• manual-based models that can be used in counselling with children and parents
• developmental psychological thinking on the child-parent relationship

Skills

The student can

• apply some knowledge from family therapeutic models and other similar models in conversations with children and parents

• reflect on the fundamental dilemma of parents being the child’s most important helpers, but also can contribute to the development of the child’s problems
• reflect on dilemmas related to talking to children and parents together

General competence

The student can

• acquire knowledge of and skills in obtaining and using sources (basic reference and quotation techniques)

Work and teaching methods consist of lectures, seminars, self-study, and practical exercises in the use of different software programmes for statistical analysis The outcomes of the seminars are presented and discussed in plenary sessions.

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Candidates must write an essay based on a problem of their choice and discuss theoretical and research challenges associated with the use of one or multiple methods of measurement. The essay must consist of up to 5,000 words and must be submitted no more than 2 weeks after the end of the course.

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Pass / Fail

One internal and one external examiner will assess the answer papers submitted by all candidates.

This course is primarily aimed at PhD candidates admitted to the PhD Programme in Health Sciences but is also open to other applicants. Admission requirements are a completed hovedfag, master's degree (120 credits) or equivalent qualification.

The course can also be offered to students who have been admitted to the "Health Science Research Programme, 60 ECTS", by prior approval from the supervisor and based on given guidelines for the research programme.