This course is designed to provide you with a thorough background in the techniques and theories of marital counseling. Additionally, family therapy stretching from initial intake to termination will be examined to give you a broad view of how therapy changes over the course of treatment.

Textbooks

The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically-Based Marital Therapy. John Mordechai Gottman. New York, New York. W.W. Norton & Company 1999. ISBN # 0393702820.

Essential Skills in Family Counseling. JoEllen Paterson, et al. New York, New York. Guilford Press. 2009. ISBN # 9781606233054.