Family and Couple Therapy I

Catalog description

Students in this intensive seminar and practicum move from the oft certainty of thought to the insecurity of practice and emerge with a sense of familiarity with systemic theory and technique. They learn several systemic approaches to families and couples and treat a family and couple with the aid of live and weekly videotape supervision. The goal of this course is for students to be able to switch at will and when appropriate from individual to systemic thinking and practicing, growing ever more comfortable with intervening in the diverse complexities of family life where needed. To achieve these goals, the students read and discuss articles, and also analyze tapes of both professional and student family and couple sessions. Each student picks up a family and a couple to treat. The first sessions are done with live supervision in front of the one way mirror. Subsequently, all sessions are videotaped and brought to tape supervision weekly outside the lecture time. Students, therefore, come to class, have a treatment case or cases, and have an additional hour of supervision.