CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH COUPLES AND FAMILIES

Catalog description

Clinical Social Work with Couples and Families is an advanced clinical practice elective which provides an in-depth study of the major theoretical approaches and evidence-based treatment models to diagnose, assess and treat relational distress and/or relational trauma within family systems and couple dyads. The primary objective of this course is to develop the student’s knowledge and facilitate specialized skills centered on a select group of couple and family therapy methodologies, including: (a) Systemic Family Therapy; (b) Structural Family Therapy; (c) Attachment-based Couple and Family Therapy; (d) Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Interpersonal Neurobiology /Principles of Neuroscience. Special attention is given to how issues related to age, caste, class, color, culture, disability and ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, generational status, immigration status, legal status, marital status, political ideology, race, nationality, religion and spirituality, sex, sexual orientation, and tribal sovereign status contribute to and/or impact individual development and relationship resilience in couple and family systems.