Course Description
Facilitates competencies in applying clinical knowledge to the range of life experiences based on biopsychosocial, contextual, and societal position (e.g., power, privilege, and oppression as related to identities); applying models of family therapy from a critical lens to work with various populations, including those from multicultural, marginalized, and/or underserved communities.
Athena Title
Sociocultural Att FT
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to identify the elements of a relational, process-oriented approach to cultural humility that integrates cultural sensitivity with attention to societal processes of power, privilege, and equity.
- Students will be able to define third order thinking and change.
- Students will be able to apply sociocultural attuned family therapy as a transtheoretical lens across the major models and theories of couple and family therapy.
- Students will be able to examine clinical guidelines that promote equitable and socio-culturally attuned practice.
Topical Outline
- 1. Guiding principles for socioculturally attuned family therapy (ANVIET)
- 2. Third Order Thinking and Change
- 3. Third Order Ethics
- 4. Application of a Sociocultural family therapy lens to major family therapy models
a. Structural
b. Strategic
c. Experiential
d. Attachment
e. Transgenerational
f. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
g. Solution Focused
h. Collaborative
i. Narrative
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
Social Awareness & Responsibility
The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.
