CAT 526 - Family Therapy and Counseling Techniques

This course covers the application of general family therapy and counseling approaches and theories and then how they apply to art therapy. This is an overview of the family therapy field as well as the pioneers in family creative arts therapy. Students learn various counseling techniques (such as structural, strategic, communications, paradox, etc.) and apply this knowledge directly to family cases with whom they are working.Open to students in Creative Arts Therapy programs and in the MSW graduate program. Open to students in other graduate programs with permission of instructor.

Prerequisites & Notes
Term cycle: fall and spring. Yearly cycle: all years.

Credits: 3