This is an introductory course to develop marriage and family counseling skills.
At the ends of the course, students are able to
1. Recognize the importance of family, social networks, and community systems in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
2. Demonstrate appropriate use of culturally responsive individual, couple, family, group, and systems modalities for initiating, maintaining, and terminating counseling.
3. Self-evaluation as a potential marriage counselor
4. Personal philosophy and methodology for marriage counseling that she/he can defend via sound rationale
5. Professionalism in marriage counseling (i.e., organizations, agencies, etc.).
6. Multiple aspects of relationship counseling (i.e., conjoint counseling, premarital counseling, divorce counseling, etc.)
7. Family functions as a unique changing system and identify those points at which successful intervention seems most likely
8. Historical development of the MFT field and current issues
9. Key terms in the MFT and associate the terms with appropriate schools of thought
10. Compare and contrast the theories and approaches of leading schools of thought
11. Personal issues pertaining to one's family of origin and present functioning and how these issues may affect one's therapeutic relationships
12. Current literature in the MFT field through journals & periodicals
- Teacher: Serife Ozbiler