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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Social Work
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Orya Tishby
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday 2:30 -3:30 pm
Teaching Staff:
Mr. Shlomo Rahmany
Course/Module description:
This course presents the basic principles of short-term psychodynamic therapy. Topics include: research supporting the effectiveness of short-term therapy, criteria for selecting patients who wil benfit from this approach and 2 short term models: Brief relational therapy and supportive expressive therapy
Course/Module aims:
1. To identify patients who wil benefit from short-term therapy
2. To learn and understand the characteristic processes and therapeutic interventions of each model
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. To decide which patients are suitable for short-term therapy, compare to other treatment options.
2. To understand the change mechanisms and types of interventions in each of the 2 models.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lectures
Class discussions and based on student assignments (dilemmas and clinical examples ).
Course/Module Content:
What is short-term psychdynamic therapy and what is the research evidence for its effectiveness ?
The differences between crisis intervention and short-term therapy
Criteria for selecting patients form short-term therapy
Brief relational therapy
Supportive expressive therapy
Short term psychodynamic therapy for different disorders, and application in community mental health centers.
Required Reading:
Safran, J. D. & Kraus, J, (2014). Alliance Ruptures, Impasses, and Enactments: A Relational Perspective. Psychotherapy, 51(3), 381-387.
Safran, J.D. (2002). Brief Relational Psychoanalytic Treatment. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 12 (2), 171-195.
Book, H.E. (1998). How to practice brief psychodynamic therapy: the core conflictual relationship theme method. Washington, American Psychological Association.
Additional Reading Material:
Will be uploaded on course website based on the dilemmas and issues thsat students will raise.
Grading Scheme :
Additional information:
The course cosists of 2 short assigments, in which students discuss 2 items from the reading list. The final paper focuses on a short term model that student find in the literature, comparing and contrasting it with one of the two models that was presented in the course.
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