Marriage Counseling and Family Systems

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to family, systems, and relational therapies. The intent is to provide an overview of theoretical concepts and intervention strategies associated with systemic and post-modern theories of family therapy. It is foundational to your development as counselors who work with families, couples, children, and adolescents. To understand and practice family therapy concepts, you are encouraged to make room for an epistemological shift from individual to relational thinking. Therefore, the focus of this course will be on examining how we construct reality and think in ways that facilitate relational interventions with couples, families, and organizational systems.