Family Therapy with Children

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of systems-based theories and models that could be utilized by MFTs while working with children and their families. Course material will also address specific topics necessary to consider while providing therapeutic services, such as ethical dilemmas related to minors, opportunities of collaboration with extra-therapeutic systems, and possibilities of developing parenting strategies sensitive to the diverse population served by MFTs. Facilitating child involvement in the therapeutic process for families will be addressed as well.