Treating the Contemporary Family (PSYG 852)

Term: 2024-2025 - Fall

Faculty

Devin K HussongShow MyInfo popup for Devin K Hussong

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Schedule

Tue, 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM (8/26/2024 - 12/7/2024) Location: MAIN MH 324

Description

This course is designed to examine family therapy as it applies to a variety of family types and structures. The student is expected to learn the clinical interventions that are useful with these various families. In addition, this class touches on the aspect of our field that consorts with sociology. In other words, the class will help you have a fuller understanding of a variety of families that do not match your own. Of course, our own experience is always present, to some degree, and this class will work to be sure that the character that you play in role will be separate from you in many pivotal ways. You will be learning about divorce, adoption, LGBT families, stepfamilies, cultural diversity, families with medical illness, and addiction. For psychologists and therapists to be able to assist families, it is best if the ways in which these children present individual differences is made clear to the parents. In order to understand and support children with special needs, it is imp