Joan Delores Atwood, Ph.D.
MFT 266
4 s.h.
Fall Semester
e-mail: CPRJDA@Hofstra.Edu
phone: 516-463-5756
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course includes an
intensive examination of theories, rationale, assumptions, goals, and
interventive strategies used in family treatment. Students are introduced to concepts and techniques of the family
approach to therapy through family role playing, videotapes, readings, and
demonstrations.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The objectives of this
course are to familiarize students with the historical development of the field
of family therapy , to present the early, middle and more recent schools of
family therapy, and to explore differences
between the more traditional therapeutic approaches and the family therapy
approach. The theoretical as well as
the practical aspects of the field are emphasized.
When the student has
successfully completed the course, s/he can expect to:
·
Be familiar with a
brief overview of the field of family therapy
·
Understand the basic
differences between linear and circular causality
·
Understand the
underlying assumptions of traditional psychological approaches and the family
therapy approaches
·
Be familiar with the
major schools of family therapy and the theorists and therapists associated
with each
·
Be familiar with the
terminology associated with each school of family therapy
·
Begin to understand
the role of the therapist