MHC 7501 Family Counseling
This course recognizes the importance of the family and family counseling as a viable modality in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders. Major areas of study include the history and development of family counseling, classic and contemporary theoretical approaches, key concepts, skills and techniques used in the assessment and treatment of a family. Characteristics of healthy and dysfunctional family systems are explored as well as special concerns such as the impact of divorce, abuse, addictions, domestic violence, single-parent households, minority stress, poverty, etc. on a family system. The concept of family-of-origin and the use and development of a genogram is emphasized.