Family of Origin: Systemic Perspectives on Risk and Resilience

1 Unit · Graduate

This course will ask students to engage in an ongoing dialectical process to understand and integrate approaches that have been advanced to understand clients’ families of origin. Approaches covered will include a strength-based, resilience framework, object relations theory, and intergenerational family therapy. The course will provide options for responding therapeutically to family of origin constraints and support students in their understanding of their own family of origin and its impact on their functioning as a therapist. MSMFT On-Campus.