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MS_FT 400 Professional Identity Seminar in Marriage and Family Therapy (0): This seminar spans the two clinical/academic years of the MSMFT Program. It is designed to introduce students to developmental and professional issues in becoming and being a Marriage and Family Therapist.
MS_FT 401 Basic Concepts of Systems Therapy (1): This course is an introduction to the central theoretical underpinnings of systemic family therapy, providing a basic framework for assessment and intervention in family problems. Particular attention is paid to the assumptions basic to a systemic perspective.
MS_FT 402 Methods of Systems Therapy (1): This course introduces students to a range of methods used in systems therapy. The methods will be drawn from the integrative traditions emphasized in The Family Institute Model and will prepare students to engage, work with and terminate cases.
MS_FT 403 Self and Other Systems: Theory and Interventions (1): This course's purpose is to deepen students' understanding of self and systems. Particular emphasis will be given to aspects of self-development and the therapist's understanding of self when working with systems.
MS_FT 410 Human Development and the Life Cycle (1): This course utilizes a development framework to understand individual human development across the life span and the dynamic interactions of individuals within families. Physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development will be presented at each age level, including issues regarding culture, gender and sexual orientation. Commonly presented problems and therapeutic interventions will be discussed for each age group
MS_FT 411 Intimate Relations (1): This course will elaborate on The Family Institute Model for working with couples, which involves great affective intensity and subtlety of communication. The most common problems that couples present, such as intense conflict, depression, sexual difficulties, separation and divorce, will be addressed.
MS_FT 412 Special Problems and Populations (1): This course provides beginning concepts and skills necessary for working with particular kinds of clients and problems. Unique challenges and special considerations exist when working with families suffering from particularly challenging problems, such as addictions, violence (both sexual and physical), poverty, divorce/remarriage and illness.
MS_FT 421 Systemic Assessment (1): Students will learn how to define the parameters of systemic assessment and how it differs from, and can be integrated with, individual assessment. Students will learn how systemic assessment operates within the current legal and medical context. Students will learn the DSM-IV diagnostic system and how to apply it systematically. Students will learn specific models and measures of systemic assessment, including formal family assessment measures.
MS_FT 422 Family Research (1): Students completing the course will develop skills to understand common MFT research methods, how research methods are applied, and how to critique research in the field of marriage and family therapy and mental health. Students will also be introduced to empirically based practices in MFT.
MS_FT 424 Group Therapy Internship (0): Course includes didactic, experiential, and clinical elements. Trainees learn the theoretical basis of group therapy and develop a framework for group work, learn the fundamentals of group dynamics by participation in a group, and co-lead a group. Course also addresses the business aspects of setting up and marketing a group.
MS_FT 427 Family of Origin and Intrapsychic Work from a Systemic Perspective (1): Course offers a systemic perspective on the development of intrapsychic structure and function; therapeutic approaches for individuals, couples, and families, including family of origin and transgenerational approaches.
MS_FT 428 Legal, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Marital and Family Therapy (1): Legal issues in the practice of marital and family therapy, including confidentiality, danger, malpractice, and expert testimony; ethical practice, including impact of therapist ’s values; development of a professional identity.
MS_FT 429 Sex Therapy (1): A multidimensional,biophysical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of sexual difficulty in individuals and couples. Sexual problems discussed include disorders of desire, aversion, arousal, orgasm, and pain.
MS_FT 430 Working in Community Settings with culturally Diverse and Underresourced Populations (1): This course reviews strategies for understanding how culture and context influence the therapeutic alliance and individual and family functioning, how to gather information regarding context, and how to apply this information for interventions with diverse and underresourced clients and settings.
MS_FT 436 Family Therapy Treatment Models (1): Exploration of various approaches to family therapy; trends and controversies in the field, including the influence of race, culture, ethnicity, and gender in assessment and treatment.
MS_FT 437 Working with Children in the Context of the Family (1): Theoretical and practical knowledge in working clinically with children individually and in family context. Topics include: use of a systemic framework for developing assessments and therapeutic objectives; clinical assessment and interventions for abuse, divorce, and mood disorders.
MS_FT 440 Systemic Perspectives in the Treatment for Chemical Dependency and Substance Abuse (1): This course reviews distinctions of disease model vs. systemic views of addiction and treatment; understanding the markers of abuse and dependence; illumination of various therapeutic approaches; efficacy of family therapy approaches. Students develop working theoretical and clinical knowledge of addiction treatment.
MS_FT 480 Prepracticum in Family Therapy (1): This course is aimed to provide practical training in systemic therapy, including interviewing skills, initial assessments, and management of professional role. Course also focuses on the role of the therapist’s family background, personal experience, values, beliefs, and interpersonal style in conducting psychotherapy.
MS_FT 481 Internship in Marital and Family Therapy (1): Clinical internship in the Bette D. Harris Family and Child Clinic under supervision by core faculty. Students gain practical experience in providing systematic assessment and treatment for clients. Begins winter quarter of the first year and continues through the summer; 1 credit per quarter. Prerequisites: MS_FT 480 Prepracticum in Family Therapy.
MS_FT 482 Advanced Internship in Marital and Family Therapy (3) : Clinical internship, under supervision by core faculty, for 15 to 20 hours per week, beginning fall quarter of the second year and continuing for the duration of the program.
MS_FT 499 Independent Study (1): Permission of instructor and department required. Course may be repeated for credit.
Related Courses
COUN_PSY 413 Group Therapy (1): Research, theory, and practice of group therapy from a psychoanalytic/social systems viewpoint. Prerequisites: COUN_PSY 412.
COUN_PSY 414 Psychology of Adult Development: Theory and Research (1): Social-psychological conceptions of age-stage theories, the role of transition crises, aging of America, and sex differences. Implications for assessment and preventive and/or supportive intervention strategies. Either COUN_PSY 414 or COUN_PSY 434 must be taken for credit, depending on student's interests and career goals.
COUN_PSY 415 Psychopathology through the Adult Life Course (1): Adaptive, pathological, individual, and family functioning through the life course. Developmental vulnerabilities, transitions, and tasks from a psychodynamic perspective. Clinical, developmental, and family systems research; onset and dynamics of common neurotic and psychotic disorders. Prerequisites: COUN_PSY 411.
COUN_PSY 417 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Adults and Children (1): Application of cognitive behavioral approach with a broad range of populations. An integrated approach is emphasized.
COUN_PSY 418 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Counseling (1): Basic psychological concepts and theories useful in understanding individual and couple processes and therapies from a psychodynamic/systems point of view. Psycho-dynamically oriented individual, couples, and group psychotherapy. Prerequisites: COUN_PSY 411 and COUN_PSY 415.
COUN_PSY 433 Understanding and Treating Adolescents (1): Theories, tasks, and domains of adolescent development are applied to issues of adolescent psychopathology, assessment, treatment, and other interventions. A developmental psychopathology model is presented.
COUN_PSY 452 Theory and Technique of Substance Abuse Counseling (1): Introduction to substance abuse and addiction; effects of addictions on relationships ,jobs, and community; current treatment options and the counselor’s role in recovery.
COUN_PSY 483-2 Cultural Diversity (1): This course/seminar will introduce the student to the process of providing counseling from a multi-cultural perspective.
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