COUN 5000 - Filial/Family Therapy

3 hours

The use of play to incorporate the family system into the therapeutic process by training parents to be therapeutic agents in their children’s lives. Focuses on the utilization of play therapy skills in regularly scheduled parent-child structured play sessions in their own homes. How to train parents in the overall principles and methodology of child-centered play therapy is addressed.

Prerequisite(s): COUN 5700, COUN 5740 and COUN 5690 or consent of instructor. COUN 5690 may be taken concurrently.

Counseling Program Policy requires that students earn grades of A or B on all degree-plan courses.