MDFT 6654: Specialty Practice in Medical Family Therapy (2024-2025)

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Medical family therapists work with families who need to process difficult health topics that affect their present and their futures. After families have met with medical care providers and specialists many families still need the support to navigate health-related decisions, discussions, and differences. Students taking this course will learn how family dynamics intersect with various illnesses (e.g., cancer, diabetes, genetics infertility) and decisions as well as gain skills that will enable them to meet family systems where they are in their process of difficult discussions, discernment, decisions, and/or grieving. Course will rotate Specialty Practice focus and students may retake course with new topic with permission of instructor. Typically offered: Alternate Years, Occasionally. May be repeated for credit 5 times.