PSY 2602 Systems/Family Therapy

Therapy talks. Counseling throughout the relationship cycle, loving one's self, one's partner, and one's life - in that order.

Counseling literature often speaks of providing diverse clients with culturally sensitive treatment, but rarely breaks down what this means within individual groups. Discussion of culturally sensitive treatment interventions with African-American couples is particularly rare. This program solves this problem by exploring specific culturally sensitive interventions with African-American couples, including identifying specific contextual factors that impact couples and evaluating intimacy threats to the relationship. The video also explores the connection between family of origin issues and couples issues, and helps viewers understand the role of racism, discrimination, and oppression on the couple.

Parents are a foundational part of family and contemporary society. This is why learning to work effectively with parents is such an essential skill-set for all health professionals. In this talk you will learn how to listen, empathize, collaborate, and validate parents in ways that will open them up to your influence. This talk will also help you recognize the power and potential of working directly with parents.

African-American couples face unique challenges in fostering relationships. This video helps clinicians and those working with African-American couples identify specific threats to intimacy that may b e operating in their relationships and may be outside the couple's awareness. Emphasizing the importance of recognizing and laying the groundwork to neutralize these threats, this program covers constructions of Black sexuality, gender stereotypes, SES issues, an unbalanced sex ratio, the extended family, mistrust, and several other identified threats. It also explains that any counseling professional working with African-American couples must be aware of and understand how to help the couple work with these damaging threats.