课程教学理念与目标：

    学生可以了解家庭心理学的相关理论及概念，课程主要通过家庭生命历程的各个环节来剖析家庭关系以及其他压力源和发展内涵。学生可以用来分析自己的原生家庭来加深对自我和自身家庭的认识。在英语课程大纲的表述如下：

Course Description:

This class is organized to be a survey of the distinct disciplines of conceptualizing and intervening with issues of marriage and the family.One goal of the course will be to introduce the student to the history, leaders, theoretical models, vocabulary and basic techniques in the field of marital and family theory and therapy.As part of this course, students will also begin the process of developing their own systemic model of how people change.

Course Objectives:

Students in this course will be able to:

1.Develop an understanding of systemic epistemologies (a paradigm shift including constructivism and social constructionism)

2.Demonstrate knowledge of the concepts and terms of the discipline of MFT.

3.Demonstrate knowledge of the primary assumptions of the major theoretical models in MFT.Various models include:

• Strategic Family Therapy (Haley)

• Mental Research Institute (MRI) Models (Jackson, Weakland, Bateson, Fisch, Watzlawick etc.)

• Milan Systemic Family Therapy (Palazzoli, Boscolo, Cecchin, Pratta)

• Structural Family Therapy (Minuchin etc.)

• Bowenian Family Therapy & Intergenerational Family Therapy (Bowen, Friedman)

• Brief and Solution Focus Family Therapy Models (de Shazer & Berg;Walter & Peller;Weiner Davis;O’Hanlon etc.)

• Narrative Therapy (White, Epston, Parry, Tomm)

• Behavioral Approaches (Weiss, Patterson etc.)

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  Contextual Approaches (Boszormenyi-Nagy)

• Experiential Approaches (Whitaker)

  
  

4.Begin the process of defining your own epistemological position regarding:

• your beliefs about the nature of human beings and human behavior

• your beliefs about the nature of change and how to bring it about