Family Assessment

This course is designed to teach marriage and family therapy assessment, using both formal and informal methods of family and couple assessment. In addition to formal assessments using standardized assessment programs and plans, students are expected to learn to conduct informal assessments (e.g. Bowen’s genogram, Minuchin’s structural family mapping) that guide clinical interventions during therapy. The relationship between assessment and direct clinical intervention is a primary focus of this course, as well as the use of the interdisciplinary team, collaboration, and forming partnerships with other health professionals.