INTERVENTIONS WITH GBTTQ FAMILIES FOCUSED ON TRAUMA

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This course provides students with essential knowledge, skills and attitudes to work with LGBTTQ families from a diverse perspective. The learning is focused on the sensitivity needed in the health services professional, using the standards for work and intervention in the problems of homosexual and lesbian couples affected by some type of trauma. The standards applied to the intervention with the LGBTTQ population and the laws of Puerto Rico that affect the community will be discussed. PSCL 880 EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR FAMILIES WITH PROBLEMATIC DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE 2 CREDITS This course will develop a clear articulation of the meaning of what it is to be a professional in the field of psychology with a specialty in addiction treatment. The competencies will be reviewed with special emphasis on the knowledge, skills and attitudes on which specialized psychotherapy is based on family care with problematic use of drugs and / or alcohol. Also, several theoretical models specialized in addictions will be discussed, in order to understand the complexity of this phenomenon.