PSYN 627 - Advanced Seminar in Systemic-Relational Practice: Contemporary Issues & Context

Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
Prerequisite(s): PSYN 653 and PSYN 657 or PSYN 605
The advanced professional development seminar course explores contemporary issues impacting families and how emerging contexts challenge clinical practice for systemic practitioners. Today we face the cross-currents of global crises such as climate change, mass migration, pandemics, political unrest, social injustices, the AI revolution and more. This course takes a critical approach—sociopolitical and systemic focus—to explore new practices that consider environmental issues, diagnostic privileges, discoveries in neuroscience, technological advancements, and/or other topical issues. These practices are shaped by our social, political, and economic contexts and impact professional development in couples and family therapy. Through a critical relational lens, the course enables students to develop professionally as adaptive and innovative practitioners in response to the evolving landscape of systemic practice.