Couple and Marital Counseling

Catalog description

While the concept of family seems to be defined and redefined through generational context the need of the individual to be “affiliated” continues to highlight the dyadic relationships importance to the emotional and social survival of the individual. This course then, is designed to explore intimate dyadic relationships and their importance to the concept of family, family development and society. Reviews select couple and family dynamics such as basic assumptions of human intimacy (variations), marriage (dissolution and remarriage), mate selection, communications, human sexuality, family crises, parenting, and aging. Through lectures, experiential exercise, reading, and class discussion family theory and technique will be instigated so as to provide conceptualizations toward therapeutic intervention.