Tma03
Student notes
For the third assignment you need to provide a fictional case study of a counselling client with issues relating to fear and sadness, and then consider how their individual problems might be located in their family system relationships and the social context in which they are embedded. Your case study should focus on the family and relationships of the client, and sociocultural issues such as culture, race, gender and sexuality. In the guidance here we have given an example fictional client (Tom). However you must not use the same fictional client in your own assignment. This example just gives you an idea of the kind of thing we are looking for in TMA 03.
The relevant material for this assignment is in Weeks 13 and 14 of the Module Guide and Chapters 9 and 10 of the textbook. You will find the introduction of Chapter 9 particularly useful in helping you to recognise how important the family is. Section 9.2, ‘Development and fundamentals of systemic counselling and psychotherapy’ and Section 9.4, ‘Getting 'stuck': a systemic understanding of fear and sadness' of Chapter 9 are also helpful in explaining the role of families and other systems in fear and sadness. When thinking about how you would work with the client as counsellor you might want to draw on Section 9.3, ‘Systemic counselling and psychotherapy today’, and Section 9.5, ‘Working systemically with fear and sadness’, both in Chapter 9. From Chapter 10 you may draw on the sections on race and culture, gender, and sexuality, depending on how relevant these issues are to the case study you are presenting. However, you should have at least some mention of all these issues (and perhaps others such as age, generation and class) because, as we saw in Chapter 10, all people have a race and culture, a gender and a sexuality which is relevant to how they experience emotions and related problems. Audiovisual Excerpts 13, 14 and 15 will also be of use, particularly Excerpt 15 which provides an example
For the third assignment you need to provide a fictional case study of a counselling client with issues relating to fear and sadness, and then consider how their individual problems might be located in their family system relationships and the social context in which they are embedded. Your case study should focus on the family and relationships of the client, and sociocultural issues such as culture, race, gender and sexuality. In the guidance here we have given an example fictional client (Tom). However you must not use the same fictional client in your own assignment. This example just gives you an idea of the kind of thing we are looking for in TMA 03.
The relevant material for this assignment is in Weeks 13 and 14 of the Module Guide and Chapters 9 and 10 of the textbook. You will find the introduction of Chapter 9 particularly useful in helping you to recognise how important the family is. Section 9.2, ‘Development and fundamentals of systemic counselling and psychotherapy’ and Section 9.4, ‘Getting 'stuck': a systemic understanding of fear and sadness' of Chapter 9 are also helpful in explaining the role of families and other systems in fear and sadness. When thinking about how you would work with the client as counsellor you might want to draw on Section 9.3, ‘Systemic counselling and psychotherapy today’, and Section 9.5, ‘Working systemically with fear and sadness’, both in Chapter 9. From Chapter 10 you may draw on the sections on race and culture, gender, and sexuality, depending on how relevant these issues are to the case study you are presenting. However, you should have at least some mention of all these issues (and perhaps others such as age, generation and class) because, as we saw in Chapter 10, all people have a race and culture, a gender and a sexuality which is relevant to how they experience emotions and related problems. Audiovisual Excerpts 13, 14 and 15 will also be of use, particularly Excerpt 15 which provides an example