GC 755 - Marriage and Family Counseling

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: GC 701 . Designed to help counselors and other mental health workers and educators learn what makes marriage work. Students learn what makes a marriage fall apart and what binds it together. Starting with an overview of system theories, this course identifies the principles of counseling couples and families with school age children. Class members become familiar with the stages of marriage and family life cycle development. The course's main focus is on the various intervention strategies designed to help couples and families reorganize and achieve cohesion, balance, and direction for continued growth, change, and stability.