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College of Professional Studies Course Descriptions
PSY 5143 use of Self as family Therapist 3
Focuses on psychotherapeutic treatment strategies for clients with
particular character styles (e.g., hysteric, obsessive, border line
narcissistic). Course concentrates on the “how” of doing therapy
with such clients. Couple and family students only. Fulfills three
units of PSy 5309 for couple and family students.
PSY 5144 advanced Couple Therapy 3
recurring issues in the life of a family. This course covers
developmental theory, critical incidents, problem assessment, and
family therapy treatment approaches. Couple and family students
only.
PSY 5145 advanced Treatment issues
in family Therapy 1–3
Advanced topics and issues concerning specific approaches to
family therapy. designed to help students learn and practice ways
of working with specific issues presented by families in treat ment.
May be repeated for credit with a change in topic. Couple and family
students only. Fulfills three units of PSy 5309.
PSY 5154 Couple Therapy 3
Covers psychodynamic family-of-origin, behavior systems, and
social-psychological approaches to couple therapy. resistance,
marital burnout, sexual jealousy, and working with alcoholic couples
are addressed as well as domestic violence issues and working with
non-dominant culture couples. Prerequisite: PSy 5304;
Co-requisite: PSy 5260 or PSy 5249.
PSY 5156 Systemic Theory and family Therapy 3
This course examines the historical emergence and use of sys tems
theory in psychotherapy. This course includes modern,
psychodynamic, or family-of-origin approaches as well as first-order
approaches (cybernetic, structuralist, functional), and post modern
approaches (second-order cybernetic or constructionist).
Assessment and treatment planning from these specific individ ual
lenses are reviewed.
PSY 5167 Brief Therapy 3
This course examines theories and methods of brief therapy from
systemic and individual psychotherapy perspectives. Topics include
problem identification, goal formulation, languaging, problem
solving and solution building. Students will learn philosophical and
theoretical premises of approaches, and practice clinical application
through experiential activities. Prerequisites: PSy 5304;
Co-requisite: PSy 5260 or PSy 5249.
PSY 5179 Basic addiction Studies 3
This course is designed to provide core information about alcohol
and drugs including their physical, psychological and systemic
impact. differences between experimentation, use, abuse, and
dependence will be discussed. Chemical addiction, process
addictions and co-occurring disorders will be presented along with
contributing biological, psychological and social dynamics. Students
will learn identification, assessment and treatment of addiction
among diverse communities through different modalities and
approaches.
PSY 5181 Positive Confrontation in the
Treatment of addiction 3
This course is designed to provide non-confrontational methods of
dealing with the denial of addiction to include interviewing,
assessment, and intervention for the purpose of reducing resis tance
for the client. Coursework will include developing healthy
boundaries and limit setting. Assessment and treatment planning
will be focused on in depth.
PSY 5182 group approaches in the Treatment of
addiction 3
Examines group approaches to facilitating interpersonal
commu nication and dealing with denial and resistance. Includes
tech niques for the presentation of educational materials to groups.
Fulfills PSy 5120G for Addiction Studies specialization students.
Prerequisite: PSy 5179.
PSY 5184 family approaches in the
Treatment of addiction 3
Effective group leadership styles with chemically dependent
individuals, application of family techniques during each phase of
treatment with alcoholics, and structural family therapy with
families in long-term recovery treatment. Prerequisite: PSy 5179.
PSY 5190 Seminar in addiction Studies 1–3
Special topics and problem areas in the field of addiction studies.
Topics include adolescent substance abuse, relapse prevention,
women and addiction, dual diagnosis and others. May be repeated
for credit with a change of topic. Prerequisite: PSy 5179. Fulfills
three units of PSy 5309 for Addiction Studies specializa tion
students.
PSY 5230 Clinical Skills Training a:
Self as Clinician 3
This course focuses on the person of the therapist with an emphasis
on one’s own values, beliefs, attitudes, personal biases, and
expectations. Students are invited to examine how their personal
history has led up to a decision to enter the field of counseling
psychology. Through personal reflections and interpersonal
interactions students are also invited to consider how their context
shapes who they are as individuals, and impacts interactions
between self and other. In this class “context” will be examined as
one’s personal history, family of origin, cultural dimensions of race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religion, and
physical ability, as well as community, national, and global realities.
Theoretical and experiential learning applies this contextual
awareness of self and other to communication and counseling skills.
PSY 5231 Clinical Skills Training B:
Therapeutic Techniques 3
Training in basic counseling skills including first sessions,
devel oping the therapeutic alliance, listening and observing on
indi vidual and systems levels, recognizing therapeutic themes and
metaphors, tracking, focusing, reflecting, mirroring, and deepen ing.
Basic skills in recognizing process vs. content, underlying or
unconscious meanings, transference and counter-transference, and
the therapist’s relationship to the system in family and couples work
are addressed as well as suicide assessment and the basic mental
status examination. This course is the first in the two-quarter
sequence with PSy 5232. Prerequisites: PSy 5115, PSy 5156, PSy
5230.
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