Practicum I - Psychotherapy and Advanced Interviewing Skills

[1.00] credits · Graduate

This is the first in a series of three clinical practica in the Master of Psychotherapy program and is designed to provide focused and advanced understanding of interviewing skills drawn from a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches and influenced by systemic-relational and collaborative-post-modern theories. This course features an integration of theory into practice and supervised clinical practice in relational and systemic family therapy. It involves conceptualizing clinical work with client from a wide diversity of relational systems. In addition to class time, students meet with clinical supervisors each week for a minimum of 1.5 hours of supervision. Supervision over the semester involves individual/dyadic, group, and live clinical teams.