Intermediate Certificate in Marriage and Family Counselling: A Systemic Approach
This course is designed to acquaint participants who have passed successfully the Basic Skills programme in marriage and family therapy.
The main elements are taken from the standard graduate programme in marriage and family therapy (MFT) and abbreviated to enable participants acquire, in a short course, further skills and competence beyond the basic level that they can use in their work places, in pastoral settings and other contexts. A strong emphasis is placed in understanding social, economic and cultural environment of clients in counseling.
For Whom
Graduates of the Basic Skills Course. Other participants may be evaluated for inclusion in a special cohort
Duration
Four Months
Practicum: 6 weeks
Expected Outcome
At the end of the programme, successful participants would have acquired skills and competencies to enable them:
01.
Attain a deeper knowledge of the field of marriage and family therapy
02.
Recognize obvious symptoms of psychopathology in couples and family clientele
03.
Become deeply aware of the social and cultural contexts of counseling
04.
Become fully aware of their limits of practice competence and thus direct clients rightly to professional counselors
05.
conduct first level assessment of clients within their competence level
06.
provide first-step interventions in moments and areas of dire need where there are no professionally trained and licensed counselors and where problems are neither deep-seated, intractable or pathologically grave.
Take Away
Intermediate Certificate in Systemic Marriage & Family Counseling (Non-accredited). Participants must fulfill all course requirements including all assignments; at least 80 percent class attendance; two-week practicum
Content
- Systemic versus language approaches to family counseling -Wk 1
- Some Recent Models in MFT (Collaborative and Narrative therapy) –Wk 2
- Cultural Issues in Clinical Diagnosis and Interventions –Wk 3
- Systemic Approach to Addiction Counseling in Families –Wk 4
- Systemic and Individual Interventions in Neurodevelopmental Challenges (Autism and ADHD) –Wk 5
- Systemic Interventions in IPV- Wk 6
- Sexuality and Sex Therapy Wk 7
- Socio-economic factors in couple and family counseling –Wk 8
- Contexts of therapy: Gender and Culture in marital counseling –Wk 9
- Six-week practicum