Practicum in Marriage and Family Therapy

Catalog description

In the didactic portion of the course, issues relevant to the beginning counselor are addressed including refinement of interviewing skills and the application of counseling to specific problems. Students also receive group supervision and individual supervision based on either videotaping or live observation of their work. CFT 8000 Research Internship This course is designed to provide a broad but rigorous, graduate-level overview of contemporary research skills in Counseling. Students participate in various research groups where they learn research planning, implementing, and analyzing and writing results. CFT 8100 Cinema Story and Counseling Students are exposed to the fundamental assumptions and ideas of general systems theory and the basic premises of the various theoretical orientations within the family therapy field. This course covers Family Systems Theories, Communication Theories, Structural Family Therapy, Strategic Family Therapy, Transgenerational Family Therapy, and Experiential Family Therapy.