STMC 5510 - Advanced Couples and Family Therapy Skills

3 credit hours
This course provides advanced skill formation for couple and family therapy students. Utilizing family therapy theory, clinical knowledge, skills, research, and spiritually integrated insights, students learn to conceptualize and treat client systems. Role-plays will afford students the opportunity to demonstrate skills such as active listening, reframing, circular questioning, and theory informed techniques. Students will learn how to develop, maintain, and terminate clinical relationships, establish goals, design intervention strategies, evaluate therapeutic outcomes, and write case conceptualizations that include treatment and safety plans.

Registration Restriction(s): Majors only
Prerequisite Course(s): STMM 5530, STMC 5500, and STMC 5720
Terms Typically Offered: summer