College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Catalog 2016

243 SFTD 5356 – Religious and Spiritual Diversity The Religious and Spiritual Diversity course is a basic course on religious/spiritual difference that uses systemic and relational family therapy theory to train mental health professionals in the art and skill of acceptance and respect of other human being’s deeply held faith/non-faith beliefs. The instructor will use basic therapeutic skill in creating a class community that is inviting, open, and honoring. Students will be challenged through the use of didactic, experiential, and written activities, related to both personal and professional experiences with religion and spirituality (R/S). SFTD 5357 Brief Coaching The growing field of coaching draws from concepts associated with brief therapy models, in particular Solution Focused Brief Therapy. In this course, students will learn the distinctions between coaching and therapy; credentialing opportunities and potential career paths as a life coach, career coach, and/or independent educational consultant; and common theoretical assumptions shared between brief therapy and brief coaching. The course is designed for students who already have a working knowledge of brief family therapy models, but wish to broaden their scope of practice and understand the history and development of the parallel field of coaching. SFTD 5358 Religious Spiritual Diversity The Religious and Spiritual Diversity course is a basic course on religious/spiritual difference that uses systemic and relational family therapy theory to train mental health professionals in the art and skill of acceptance and respect of other human being’s deeply held faith/non-faith beliefs. The instructor will use basic therapeutic skill in creating a class community that is inviting, open, and honoring. Students will be challenged through the use of didactic, experiential, and written activities, related to both personal and professional experiences with religion and spirituality. SFTD 5361 - Developing a Private Practice in Coaching and Therapy This course examines applications of family therapy methods and ideas in private practice settings. The course will prepare students to develop a private practice as a marriage and family therapist, as a career/college/health and wellness coach, or both, depending on previous background and additional coursework. Students will learn the basics of developing a referral base, understanding managed care and insurance systems, and developing workshops and community outreach. The ethics of private practice and the need for practitioner self-care will also be stressed. This course will be useful for those planning a private practice career as all or part of their professional journey. Offered summer term. SFTD 5362 – Solution Focused Coaching This course prepares the student for professional practice as a solution focused coach. In this course, the distinctions between therapy, education, and coaching are clearly presented, and the student learns basic skills and approaches to solution focused coaching. Students will also be educated on specializations in career, college, health and wellness, and other specific types of coaching practice. Offered summer term. SFTD 5363 Advanced Equine-Assisted Family Therapy This course will utilize an equine-assisted, experiential model to provide students with an opportunity to explore and develop their awareness of the Self of the Therapist (SOTT). Additionally, through clinical role-plays incorporating application of MFT theories and models, students will learn to conduct equine- assisted clinical and training sessions with a variety of populations and presenting issues. Students will apply different interventions and activities involving the horses and mock clients in role-play situations, and will be expected to intentionally incorporate a systemic, relational approach in all sessions. The course readings will also integrate concepts from other clinical and theoretical coursework in order to facilitate students’ ability to consistently connect the systemic family therapy framework with an equine assisted approach. SFTD 5364 Advanced Narrative Therapy Practices This course is designed to provide students with a chance more deeply explore narrative therapy ideas and practices than was possible in Systemic Family Therapy II, and to collaborate on developing skills in ongoing cases. SFTD 5410 - Quantitative Research I This course covers fundamental concepts and practices in quantitative research method by introducing measurement and statistics, questionnaire development, and experimental and quasi-experimental research designs for the study of human sciences. Exemplary studies from family therapy literature are included. Prerequisite: SFTD 5007 or equivalent. Offered summer term. SFTD 6110 – Systems Application in the Family Life Cycle of Aging This course will provide a focus on the major concepts of systems thinking as applied to the family life cycle of aging. The class will focus on foundational concepts of systemic theories associated with work of Gregory Bateson, Humberto Maturana, and Heinz von Foester. Students will have an opportunity to explore interactional theories informed by cybernetics, language, and natural systems metaphors in the framework of the aging process. This course will provide not only an opportunity to learn about systemic theories, but also a possibility to reflect on applications of such theoretical concepts while examining the process of aging and family interactions involving older adults. Offered winter term.