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 |