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    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. 

    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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