CBS 731 / Advanced Family Therapy Formulation

3 unit(s)

Registration in the program or permission of the Study Area Chair.

This course extends the knowledge and skills of the Family Concepts course. Students will learn to integrate the concepts learned in the previous course to formulating functioning and problems in families. Students will identify the processes and transactional patterns within a family system to complete a full family assessment and formulation using a systems perspective. Students will consider the impact of various factors on the family system (the family’s strengths, changes in the family system, illness, violence), recognize when family therapy is needed, and begin to identify family therapy treatment goals.