Major models of family therapy will be presented to orient the student to an understanding of functional and dysfunctional processes in human interaction. This course lays the foundation for the subsequent assessment and treatment courses which focus specifically on the major schools of family therapy. Developmental aspects of the family system over time, delineating critical issues for individual and other subsystems at various stages and transition points of the family life cycle. This course covers divorce, remarriage and blended families within the various stages a family may experience. Integral principles of human organization that influence family growth and development.
Students gain an understanding of ethnicity and gender from a systemic framework.
Assessment and interventions from the structural, strategic and Behavioral schools of family therapy are examined. Students learn about diagnosis and treatment of human dilemmas and symptomatology within a systemic context. Assessment and interventions from Experiential, Intergenerational and Psychodynamic schools of family therapy are explored. Students learn diagnostic and treatment of human dilemmas and symptomatology from these schools of therapy. Systemic Interventions in a School Setting 3 Prereq.