Unit information: Facilitating Therapeutic Groups in 2009/10

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Unit name Facilitating Therapeutic Groups
Unit code ACHSM0011
Credit points 20
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52)
Unit director Mrs. Midwinter
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department School of Applied Community and Health Studies
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

This unit focuses on the group of students as a whole, offering them the opportunity to try out the uses of writing in a controlled setting in a peer group in order to understand the interaction of theory and practise of group managemaent in a therapeutic setting in relation to creative writing.