COUN 540 - Counseling Diverse Couples and Families

Unit(s): 4

This course offers theoretical, principle, and methodological foundations for understanding diverse couple and family relationships by providing an overview of historical and contemporary models of conceptualization, assessment, and intervention. Attention is devoted to important legal, ethical, and clinical considerations unique to working with families and couples, including partner abuse assessment, intervention, and dynamics; child abuse reporting; and roles of families and systems in substance abuse and dependence. Throughout, cultural factors such as the role of poverty, sexual identity, blended families/step-parenting, and multiracial families are addressed. This course also includes focus on 3 units of special topics toward the CA LPCC license.

Grading: GRD