Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Distinguish between individually oriented and family oriented themes and dynamics.
- Describe the characteristics of systems and cybernetic perspectives.
- Explain how theoretical orientation and personal characteristics influence the role of the therapist.
- Describe the role of gender and cultural concerns in family therapy and human development.
- Describe the process a therapist uses to build a therapeutic alliance with all family members.
- Explain the authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive forms of parenting as they relate to family therapy.
- Identify the differences between family therapy with a biological family and a stepfamily.
- Analyze attachment processes and the impact on the family system.
- Describe the various roles, subsystems, and double binds that present in a family structure.
- Identify family intervention and assessment strategies used with spousal, partner, and same-gender abuse.
- Explain the family treatment planning process, including identifying goals, monitoring progress, and working with the concept of the identified patient.
- Define circular causality and describe how to identify cycles in family interactions.
- Compare interventions and techniques for experiential, solution-focused, and postmodern therapies.
- Describe the use of deconstruction and externalization in the postmodern model.
- Apply cognitive behavioral techniques to family therapy.
- Apply structural and strategic family therapy to diverse families.
- Explain the importance of understanding human behavior within the social context of representative cultures in the region.
- Identify intervention techniques used in subsystems and double binds that present in a family structure.
- Explain the use of paradox in family therapy.
- Describe the termination processes in family therapy.
- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of co-therapy and co-therapy strategies used within sessions.
- Explain the significance of teaming with other professionals.
