PSYC 413 Family Counseling
This course provides a study of family counseling principles and techniques and their application in a variety of settings but with special emphasis on the families of substance abusers. This course does not fulfill elective requirement of the psychology major or minor.
Prerequisite
PSYC 410 or enrollment in the Addiction Counseling program.
Offered
Fall, odd years
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify the basic concepts, assumptions, perspectives and research regarding family systems theory.
- Demonstrate knowledge of family development and transitions across life span to identify normative issues expressed by families as they progress through the family life cycle.
- Develop basic interviewing, assessment, and counseling skills for client’s presenting issues from a family systems perspective.
- Understand the structure, functions, roles and goals of families
- Identify family issues that affect the development of children adolescents and adults which may impede optimal social functioning and manifest in symptoms such as learning disabilities, intellectual disability, abuse or violence, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, etc.
- Identify preventive strategies for working with couples and families such as pre-marital counseling, parent education and relationship enhancement.
- Apply ethical standards to family counseling situations.
- Analyze their own family-of-origin system’s structure & function and it’s impact on individual member’s behavioral patterns.