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general marriage and family therapist, to add creative techniques to his or her repertoire.
Offered summer term.
DMFT 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: DMFT 5006.
Offered winter term.
DMFT 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: DMFT 5006, DMFT 5110. Offered fall term.
DMFT 5130 – Crisis Management
This course provides students advanced skills in crisis management for the expansion of
their supervision and training of other professionals. Offered winter term.
DMFT 5140 – Advanced Micro Skills
This course provides student the most advanced micro skills in clinical work, providing
them the resources for training and overseeing supervisees and become mentors of other
mental health professionals. Offered fall term.
DMFT 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.
DMFT 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.
DMFT 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
