Course Description
Methods of supervision in couple and family therapy.
Athena Title
CFT Supervision
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will teach advanced doctoral students and supervisors-in-training (SIT) the content of family therapy supervision.
- Students will support the continual exploration of SIT's in supervisory practice.
- Students will supervise doctoral student SIT's supervision of family therapists.
- Students will create a context of growth, critical analysis, and excitement about the field of family therapy training and supervision.
Topical Outline
- 1. Introduction: Logistics, Contracts, Expectations, AAMFT SIT
Contract
- 2. Discussion of Contracts, Structure, Evaluations
- 3. Discussion of History and Ethics
- 4. Cultural Issues
- 5. Sexual Orientation and Gender
- 6. Psychoanalytic and Transgenerational Models
- 7. Comparing Models and Creating Your Own
- 8. Purposive Systemic Models
- 9. Integrative and Postmodern Models
- 10. Relationships, Power, Problems, and Complexity
- 11. Methods and Interventions: Tapes and Case Consultations
- 12. Supervision Settings: Issues and Differences
- 13. Teaching and Supervising Supervisors
