This course aims to provide a basic training in social work theories and counselling approaches, using a combined academic, practical and experiential approach. The ideological underpinning of each therapy model will be critically examined. Students are introduced to various therapy models chosen to reflect the diversity of normative assumptions and therapeutic focus in providing individual and family counselling. Family system theory is adopted to analyze individuals in the context of the family, i.e. the family of origin and the current family or the present network of intimate relationships in Chinese society and indigenous context. Students are expected to be conversant with theoretical underpinnings of counselling intervention and treatment.