Recovery-Oriented Care and Postmodern Family Therapy

Catalog description

This Master’s level course focuses on post-modern models and treatment trends in marriage and family therapy including the philosophy of social constructionism and the narrative, solution focused, and collaborative models, and the recovery model. Course content will enable you to conceptualize and distinguish recent epistemological issues and address contemporary conceptual directions in the field of marriage and family therapy. You will complete short essays, case studies, and assorted assignments to address a wide variety of presenting clinical problems and issues such as gender and racial diversity and discrimination, feminism, substance abuse, and recovery from mental illness.