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2024 - 2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024 - 2025 Graduate Catalog

EDUC 627 - Marriage and Family Counseling


(3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC C32  and EDUC C33  or permission of instructor.

A survey course that examines the origin and dynamics of family systems theory and its application to the practice of marriage and family counseling. Students are introduced to various theoretical explanations for why people behave the way they do in marital and family relationships, to verbal and nonverbal interaction patterns operating within family relationships, and to multiple approaches to therapeutic intervention with families.