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3.00 Credits
Provides family therapists, counselors, and other health practitioners with a family systems view of the development and maintenance of substance abuse patterns. Examines the contributions made to the understanding and treatment of substance abuse by family researchers, theorists, and clinicians. Clinical intervention methods for substance abuse are considered, focusing on the treatment of adolescents, couples, and families.
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3.00 Credits
A basic understanding of the issues involved in divorce, single parenthood, and remarriage to prepare the student to employ appropriate techniques and strategies for working with this population.
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1.00 Credits
The sculpting skills that produce therapeutic changes in a system. Family sculpting as an effective method of blending the cognitive with the experiential with the goal of re-shaping the family.
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1.00 Credits
A survey of both the acute and chronic effects of psychotropic drugs on behavior. Students learn how drugs affect mental processes. Emphasis on drugs that are used to relieve anxiety, and to treat some serious mental disorders.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of therapeutic practice. Introduction to the major theories of personality, as well as to the skills and techniques of therapeutic interviewing. Provides students with basic group leadership skills.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of interpersonal communication and systems theory. Introduction to the literature upon which family systems theory and therapy are based. Students are required to read the fundamental writings of the theoreticians in the field from cybernetics, general systems theory, communication theory, and their epistemologies.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of the broad field of family therapy. Family assessment approaches from the structural/strategic, Bowenian, and systemic perspectives are explored. Includes practice with family assessment instruments. Prerequisite: MFTH560.
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3.00 Credits
Family therapy intervention methods based on structural/strategic, solution focused, Milan, Bowenian, and social constructionist approaches. Students practice therapeutic intervention and interview skills. Students develop their own conceptual frame for clinical practice, and examine their own style as clinicians. Practicum required. Prerequisite: MFTH560 and 561.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a structure and framework for conducting therapy with couples. Focus on understanding the marital context from gender and cultural perspectives. Examines marital therapy using different theoretical modalities. Students practice assessing and working with couples by applying different theoretical approaches. Major issues couples therapy: violence, alcoholism, mental illness, sexual issues, lesbian and gay relationships, as well as ethnic and racial intermarriage. Practicum required. Prerequisite: MFTH560, 561 and 562.
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3.00 Credits
Ways to conceptualize a macro-systemic approach to the assessment and intervention with families. Examines multiple embedded systems and the larger societal discourse surrounding "multi-helper"situations. Designed to increase the family therapist's ability to navigate public sector systems such as schools, courts, and social welfare agencies. Students also explore the system of the professional helper, examining the socio-political position of the family therapist. Practicum required. Prerequisite: MFTH560, 561, 562, and 563.
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