Students will learn evidence-based approaches for treating individual, couple, and family concerns such as (the below list is not exhaustive):

• Individual: Depression, anxiety, bi-polar, trauma (child, adolescent, adult), ADHD, eating disorders, substance abuse, grief, stress associated with life transitions, anger, and conduct problems.
• Couple: Relationship satisfaction, communication and conflict resolution skills, recovering from an affair, treating couples where domestic violence is prevalent, sexual and intimacy concerns.
• Family: Behavioral issues with children/teens, parent-child relationships, parenting skills, family communication and conflict resolution skills. 

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THERAPY APPROACHES LEARNED ​

General Therapies

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Cognitive Processing for the Treatment of Trauma
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents
• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Bowen Family Therapy
• Structural Family Therapy
• Strategic Family Therapy
• Experiential Family Therapy
• Attachment-Based Family Therapy
• Common Factors Approach

• Couple Therapies
  
• Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
  
• Integrative Couples Behavioral Therapy
  
• Gottman’s Method of Couples Therapy
  
• The Infidelity Model for couples recovering from an affair
  
• Discernment Counseling for helping couples deciding whether to end a relationship
  
• Helping couples with Intimate Partner Violence
  
• Sex Therapy Approaches

Play Therapies

• Sandtray Therapy
• Filial Play Therapy
• Theraplay
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral
• ​Therapy with Children and Adolescents

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