Queer Counseling and Narrative Practice

Catalog description

Students will learn the assumptions, working principles, and beginning practices of postmodern, resource-oriented brief therapy with LGBTQ-identified individuals, couples and families, through reading, class discussion, dyadic role-play, film presentation and instructor interviews. Specific models examined will be Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy, in addition to Social Constructionist perspectives, with the purpose of challenging marginalizing discourses, and developing preferred LGBTQ identities.