Course Description
Fundamental skills of couple and family therapy and clinic procedures; relational case assessment, and treatment planning. Case observation, role play, and video reviews. Course builds multidisciplinary collaboration for relational intervention, integrates clinical foci, develops a shared language, and differentiates between disciplinary scope of practice and that of collaborators.
Athena Title
PrePrac & Interdisc Prac
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will identify connections and tensions among contextual factors, epistemic foundations, values, and techniques.
- Students will foster creativity and flexibility in case conceptualization through working with multiple clinical and affiliated perspectives.
- Students will synthesize ideas and characteristics from multiple clinical disciplines and affiliated fields to solve problems from different perspectives.
- Students will discern clinical areas of focus within their own scope of practice from those requiring consultation and/or collaboration with other disciplines.
- Students will identify the specific ways stress, mental health, relationship issues, and financial issues co-exist.
- Students will learn to demonstrate fundamental relational therapy skills (e.g., building therapeutic alliance in a sysem, conducting an systemic intake, informed consent process for a system).
- Students will learn to demonstrate appropriate screening for telehealth fit.
- Students will learn to demonstrate clinic procedures such as documentation, Electronic Health Record processes, and emergency and high-risk assessment/procedures.
Topical Outline
- Multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary clinical work
- Scope of practice
- Co-therapy, Consultation, and Collaboration
- Therapeutic alliance
- Informed consent
- Conducting an intake
- Telehealth screening
- Relational/Systemic Documentation (Progress notes vs. Psychotherapy notes, Treatment Plans, etc.)
- Mandated Reporting assessment and procedures
- Mental health emergency scenarios (voluntary vs. Involuntary hospitalizations) and other crisis situations
