Students will learn evidence-based approaches for treating individual, couple, and family concerns such as (the below list is not exhaustive):
- Individual: Depression, anxiety, bi-polar, trauma (child, adolescent, adult), ADHD, eating disorders, substance abuse, grief, stress associated with life transitions, anger, and conduct problems.
- Couple: Relationship satisfaction, communication and conflict resolution skills, recovering from an affair, treating couples where domestic violence is prevalent, sexual and intimacy concerns.
- Family: Behavioral issues with children/teens, parent-child relationships, parenting skills, family communication and conflict resolution skills.
General Therapies
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Cognitive Processing for the Treatment of Trauma
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Bowen Family Therapy
- Structural Family Therapy
- Strategic Family Therapy
- Experiential Family Therapy
- Attachment-Based Family Therapy
- Common Factors Approach
Couple Therapies
- Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
- Integrative Couples Behavioral Therapy
- Gottman’s Method of Couples Therapy
- The Infidelity Model for couples recovering from an affair
- Discernment Counseling for helping couples deciding whether to end a relationship
- Helping couples with Intimate Partner Violence
- Sex Therapy Approaches
Play Therapies
- Sandtray Therapy
- Filial Play Therapy
- Theraplay
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral
- Therapy with Children and Adolescents
