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South America, and India, and others; designed to appeal to a wide variety of students
from various backgrounds. Students will learn to become more sophisticated with regard
to their understanding of family functioning and the role of counseling and therapy in an
international context. Prerequisite: SFTM 5310; 5320; 5321; 6340; 5400-I. Offered
summer term.
SFTM 6558 - Couples Therapy: Theory and Application
In this course, students will examine their own experiences, biases and values about
couples and working with couples as well as the historical development of couples’
therapy. Students will learn current clinical approaches to couples therapy and
evidenced-based models for working with couples. Students will examine current couple
and marital research as well as assessment instruments used for working with couples.
Students will examine specific professional, ethical, and legal issues associated with
couples work. Issues of diversity and a commitment to multicultural exploration are
demonstrated and interwoven throughout all discussions as students explore specific
areas of work with couples such as extra-marital affairs, intimate partner violence,
divorce, step-parenting, and health and illness. Offered winter term.
SFTM 6560 - Couples’ Therapy I
This course covers couples’ therapy issues that include marital research, evidence-based
models, and attention to diversity issues in working with couples. This course is also
available as SFTM 5310; 5320; 6340. Offered winter term.
SFTM 6570 – School-based Family Counseling
This course offers training to work in educational setting utilizing a brief, solution
oriented, and strength-based approaches to school issues. Also, this course will assist
those therapists seeking a certified educational planner credential. Co-requisite with
SFTM 6300. Offered summer term.
SFTM 6580 – Couples’ Therapy II
The course provides extensive coverage of couples' therapy issues to include divorce,
remarriage, trauma, infertility, infidelity, gender, power, intimate partner violence, GLBT
couples, diversity and multicultural issues, substance abuse, mental illness, physical
health, aging, technology, spirituality, death, professional, ethical and legal issues, and
resources for couples. Prerequisite: SFTD 6550. Offered summer term.
SFTM 6630 – Grief and Loss
The personal beliefs and philosophies regarding dying, loss, and death are explored.
Bereavement across the life cycle, including developmental issues relating to adults and
children and their understanding of loss are reviewed. The manner in which other
cultures create meaningful rituals for life and death will be presented. Offered summer
term.
SHSS 6620 - Academic Writing (Elective)
This writing course is a user-friendly seminar on how to write clear, unpretentious
academic prose. Technical issues are covered that include sentence structure,
punctuation, tenses, idea development and presented in a non-technical manner. The
focus includes strategies for creating and editing manuscripts and for researching,
organizing, and writing literature reviews. Offered each term.
