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| MFTP 518 Medical Family Therapy - 3.00 credits |
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| This course is designed to prepare family therapist and other health professionals to work in a collaborative manner addressing the unique psychosocial problems of individuals, couples, and families with acute and chronic medically related concerns. |
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| MFTP 537 Multicultural & Family Systems Approach to Healthcare - 4.00 credits |
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| This course builds on Introduction to Family Therapy Theory and Concepts by extending foundation knowledge on serving diverse families who are challenged by particular health and developmental problems. |
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| MFTP 538 Issues and Trends in Health Policy for Families - 3.00 credits |
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| This course will provide the clinician with an introduction to the history structure and function of health policy. The overall learner objective for clinicians is to analyze health policies that impact children, families, and aging populations. Students need to learn about how health care policies are developed, implemented, evaluated, and changed by policy makers and interest groups and how such policies affect the lives of clients and their families. |
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| CFTP 500 Introduction to Systems Theory - 4.00 credits |
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| This course will present an overview of systems theory, particularly general systems theory and cybernetics. This course will include a critique of system theory from a feminist and cross-cultural perspective. |
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| CFTP 501 Introduction to Family Therapy - 4.00 credits |
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| The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to major family therapy theories and their relationship to general systems theory and cybernetics. |
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| CFTP 505 Bowen Theory - 4.00 credits |
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| This course offers a brief review of the history and development of the life work of Murray Bowen, M.D., an overview of the resulting theory of human behavior, Bowen Theory, and use of its interactive components in clinical, research and organizational applications. |
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| CFTP 508 Structural Family Therapy - 4.00 credits |
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| This course is designed to introduce students to the practice and principles of Structural Family Therapy. This course will identify interventions related to structural theory and person of the therapist. |
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| CFTP 510 Sex Therapy - 4.00 credits |
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| This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of sex therapy. Sexual disorders and sexuality will be addressed from the perspective of the individual, couple and family or origin. |
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| CFTP 517 Addictions in The Family - 4.00 credits |
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| The process of addiction will be examined in the context of the family and the larger social system. A wide exposure to theory and treatment models will be utilized to aid students' assessment and intervention skills in treating families with substance abuse issues. |
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| CFTP 519 Family Violence - 4.00 credits |
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| This course will introduce students to research and practice of partner violence in the field of couple and family therapy. |
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| CFTP 520 Family Life Cycle - 4.00 credits |
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| This course integrates the interface of individual development with the social structure of coupling and family in family life cycle framework. |
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| CFTP 537 Nosology & Couple and Family Therapy Practice - 4.00 credits |
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| This course focuses on the principles of individual diagnosis of mental illness as defined in DSM IV and the implications for relational theory. |
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