College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Graduate Catalog

248 for each stage of development will be explored. Offered fall term. SFTD 5050 – Family Play Therapy This course will explore creative means of expression in therapy, including but not limited to art, music, sand tray, puppets and other play related materials. The use of these techniques with children, adolescents, and families will be discussed and practiced. This course is a preparation for those who may wish to focus on working with young children and/or on pursuing certification as a registered play therapist. It will also be useful to the general marriage and family therapist, to add creative techniques to his or her repertoire. Offered summer term. SFTD 5110 - Language Systems This course locates the practice of therapy within cultural, philosophical, and scientific domains; it uses notions about the relational nature of language as a means of examining, critiquing, and explicating therapeutic practice. Prerequisite: SFTD 5006. Offered winter term. SFTD 5120 - Thinking Systems The study of systemic theory, particularly the ideas of relationship, difference, and context is the focus of this course, which emphasizes the ideas of Gregory Bateson. Prerequisites: SFTD 5006, SFTD 5110. Offered fall term. SFTD 5140 Advanced Micro Skills This course will introduce students to systemically focused clinical microskills for use in the advancement of their own clinical work, development of self supervision, and as a tool for supervising other clinicians. Students will advance through microskills at basic, therapeutic, epistemological, model, and advanced skill levels via role plays, observing other clinicians, transcript and video/audio recording analysis. SFTD 5300 - Legal, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Marriage and Family Therapy This course offers an in depth explanation of accreditation and licensure organizations, along with the ethical codes they promote in family therapy and related fields. This includes a review of the therapist’s legal responsibilities and liabilities in mental health and family law, insurance claims, and private practice management with inclusion of an overview of professional opportunities in public service and training programs. Offered fall term. SFTD 5301 Agency Practice and Organizational Consulting This course examines applications of family therapy methods and ideas in community and agency settings including in-home, residential, outpatient and inpatient settings. The course will prepare students to work in the community and learn and refine their skills as related to completing clinical documentation, learning and meeting requirement of different funding sources, preparing safe aftercare and discharge plans and working collaboratively with clients, family and representatives of larger systems involved with such clients. Students will learn about managed care, Medicaid, Medicare, Private Insurance Systems. Students will also learn rules and regulations related to working with different funding sources and Federal and State Funding systems. Students will learn techniques of agency administration and organizational consultation. This course will be useful to those seeking careers in agencies, hospitals, and managed care settings, and for the general marriage and family therapist. Offered summer term. SFTD 5311 - Substance Abuse/Addictions and Critical Issues in Systems Theories This course addresses the application of modern and postmodern ideas to substance abuse, addictions, and critical issues in the practice of therapy. Emphasis is placed on the application of modern and postmodern ideas to substance abuse, additions, and critical issues based on research, theories, practice, and treatment. Also included are other critical issues of culture, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, violence and other areas of critical concern in social systems. Prerequisite: SFTD 6200. Offered summer term. SFTD 5355 – Introduction to Equine Assisted Family Therapy This course will provide students with an introduction to all aspects of equine assisted mental health approaches. Beginning with an overview of the rapidly growing Animal Assisted Therapy field, the course will cover in greater depth equine assisted psychotherapy, team building, and therapeutic riding programs. Through hands-on experience working with horses, students will be introduced to the Equine Assisted Family Therapy model being developed as a collaborative effort between the NSU Family Therapy program and Stable Foundations, an independent equine-assisted therapy program in the community. Offered fall and winter terms. SFTD 5356 – Religious and Spiritual Diversity The Religious and Spiritual Diversity course is a basic course on religious/spiritual difference that uses systemic and relational family therapy theory to train mental health professionals in the art and skill of acceptance and respect of other human being’s deeply held faith/non-faith beliefs. The instructor will use basic therapeutic skill in creating a class community that is inviting, open, and honoring. Students will be challenged through the use of didactic, experiential, and written activities, related to both personal and professional experiences with religion and spirituality (R/S). SFTD 5357 Brief Coaching The growing field of coaching draws from concepts associated with brief therapy models, in particular Solution Focused Brief Therapy. In this course, students will learn the distinctions between coaching