Mar 29, 2024  
2015-2016 SGPP Catalog and Handbook 
    
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MFT660V Working Systemically with the Eating Disorder Population (1 cr.)

Prerequisite(s): MFT605 MFT620  

Pre/Co-requisite: MFT615  
This course exposes students to diagnostic and unique treatment issues involved when working with clients with an eating disorder. Collaborative approaches to treating eating disorders with a family systems perspective are examined.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

  1. Apply knowledge of marriage and family therapy models to a population dealing with eating disorders (ED).
  2. Demonstrate the knowledge of diagnostic criteria related to ED diagnosis.
  3. Identify the social/cultural influences on clients diagnosed within an eating disorder.
  4. Develop creative treatment options at the time of intake, therapy, and recovery states of eating disorders treatment.
  5. Integrate their relationship with food and the role it plays in their own lives.
     



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