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lifestyles (cognitions, affect, mood, behaviours and environment) than either approach by itself.
This course strives to provide students with a broad sweep of theory, skills and techniques for
their therapeutic arsenal. Ideally, the strategies and techniques drawn from Cognitive
Behaviour Therapy, including the most innovative Schema Therapy with its theory and
techniques which is a more advanced application of CBT, will enable students from various
theoretical orientations work more effectively as counselling psychologists.

CP 504 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Clinical Practicum)
1 Term; 3 Credits
The aim of this course is to equip students with basic skills in psychodynamic
psychotherapy. After completion of the course, students would have built a foundation in
psychodynamic therapeutic skills such as dream interpretation, free association, word
association, transference analysis, active imagination, lifestyle analysis, and so on. More
importantly, students will be able to describe the aetiology of neurosis and psychosis in
psychodynamic perspective and construct useful case conceptualizations on which to plan
interventions.

CP 505 Mental Health Counselling (Clinical Seminar)
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course is one of four clinical seminars (CP505 Mental Health Counselling, CP507
School Psychology and Counselling, CP509 Vocational Psychology and Counselling, and
CP511 Couple and Family Counselling). Students are to choose two of the four settings and
develop some expertise in their chosen areas. Students choosing the Mental Health
Counselling sequence will be given the opportunity to integrate this course into their Internship
and Externship. Students will be provided with numerous clinical vignettes with different types
of clinical issues to enhance their knowledge and skills regarding diagnoses, differential
diagnoses, aetiology of the presenting issues, as well as conceptualization and treatment
intervention. Students must then apply what they have learned within the context of the course
to their Internship and Externship experiences. They are highly required to exercise their critical
thinking skills in the mental health counselling context. Within the class structure, students will
also be required to present and discuss about their own cases from the counselling
experiences, and then they are expected to demonstrate the advanced skills outside the
classroom.

CP 507 School Psychology and Counselling (Clinical Seminar)
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course is one of the four clinical seminars (CP505 Mental Health Counselling, CP507
School Psychology and Counselling, CP509 Vocational Psychology and Counselling, and
CP511 Couple and Family Counselling). This course is designed to introduce students to
school psychology and counselling, an area where the practice of counselling psychology is
considered to be of central importance to the integrated approach now commonly adopted in
most schools in Hong Kong. Students will be provided with adequate knowledge and

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