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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
    ·     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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