CLPY670 Marriage and Family Counseling (3 cr.)

This course provides an overview of evidence-based theories and interventions for working with couples and families that promote health and well-being outcomes, consistent with health service psychology.  The course includes developing treatment plans and evaluation of family, marital, and/or couples therapeutic outcomes as part of ongoing progress monitoring. The course integrates a Catholic understanding of marriage as a vocation and addresses contemporary challenges to families and couples such as sexuality, separation, parenting stress, infertility, and religious/spiritual challenges.

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

1. Articulate the major theories and models of family, marriage, and couples counseling.
2. Analyze the extant scholarship in treatment selection decision-making with families, marriages, and couples. 
3. Develop evidence-based treatment plans, monitoring, and evaluation of therapeutic modality used with diverse families, marriages, and couples. 
4. Apply a multicultural orientation to evidence-based treatment plans, monitoring, and evaluation of therapeutic modality with diverse families, marriages, and couples. 
5. Integrate Catholic understanding of marriage and family to treatment of common problems to contemporary challenges of families, marriages, and couples.