COUN 606 Systemic Theory: Couples Counseling

This course exposes students to relationship issues and therapeutic techniques for counseling couples that are grounded in empirically-based clinical findings. Current models of couples counseling will be explored. Students will learn to teach skills to couples, in order to strengthen and support their relationships. Methods of instruction involve a mixture of in-class face-to-face learning and online asynchronous learning.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

Admission to the MAC Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling Program.

Outcomes

1. This course prepares students to:
2. a) Assess the impacts of culture, gender, sexual orientation, prior relationships, and extended family on couples.
3. b) Evaluate ethical responses to issues of disclosure, confidentiality, secrets, abuse, and other situations presented by couples.
4. c) Apply interventions with couples facing common relationship issues.
5. d) Evaluate the influence of your upbringing, learning, sexual behavior and values, and your own personal needs as they relate to your readiness to work with couples in a clinical setting
6. e) Evaluate appropriate theoretical applications to issues presented by couples.
7. f) Construct a treatment plan for relationship issues based on different approaches and techniques