70-6126 Family Counseling

Students will survey various frameworks from the field of couples and family counseling which focus on facilitating change in relational patterns. Principles in Relational-Cultural Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Brief Strategic Family Therapy, Function Family Therapy and Communication Analysis will be explored. Emphasis will also be placed on at risk families that face challenging issues such as neglect, addictions, domestic violence, trauma, sexual abuse, acculturation pressures, and mental illness. Effective treatment planning requires understanding the impact of environmental, social, economic and cultural factors ontherappeutic processes.

3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 70-6110 Dance Mvt Therapy Theory I and 70-6115 Dance/Movement Therapy II and 70-6210 Human Development and 70-6215 Psychopathology