PSY-749 Marriage and Family Therapy4 semester credits
This course embraces historical and cross-cultural views of the complex and changing social unit known as the family, dealing with contemporary theories and current issues in marriage and family therapy
Pre-requisites: PSY-711A1 and PSY-711A2
Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
Note: Elective
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Objective(s):
1. Be familiar with the history of marriage and the family in Western culture, including alternatives to the traditional nuclear family.
2. Be familiar with historical and sociocultural influences on the concepts of love and pairing.
3. Be familiar with the importance and contributions of systems thinking in family and couples therapy.
4. Know the historical context of contemporary theories of family therapy by familiarizing yourself with the origins and development in this field over the past 40 years.
5. Understand the development and history of family psychology and marriage and family therapy.
6. Be conversant with the scientific literature in family psychology providing empirical support for couples and family interventions.
7. Know the differences and similarities among psychoanalytic, behavioral, and systemic theories of couples and families.
8. Be familiar with current developments in the field of couples therapy, including the influence of research in neurobiology.
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