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Chpt 1: Introduction to the Class Notebook
Chpt 2: Registration & Pre-registration
Chpt 3: Required 500 Level Courses
MAC 502 (Group)
- MAC 503 (Individual)
- MAC 512 (Family Systems)
- MAC 514 (Developmental)
- MAC 521 (Gender)
- MAC 522 Syllabus
Required 600 Level Courses
- MAC 601 (Psychopathology)
- MAC 602 (Assess/TX)
- MAC 620 (Ethics)
Chpt 5: Elective 500 & 600 Level Courses
- MAC 651 (Substance Abuse)
- MAC 661 (Marriage/Family)
- MAC 671 (Expressive)
- MAC 691-692 Internship
- MAC 560 (Children)
- MAC 570 (Career)
- MAC 695 (Clinical)
- MAC 695 (Statistics)
Chpt 6: Independent Study Courses
Chpt 7: Transfer Courses
Chpt 8: Internship Classes
(On-line Forms)
Annual Schedule
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Master of Arts in
Counseling Psychology ("MAC")
MAC 522:
"Abusive Relationships"
Sample Syllabus
(Subject to change) Faculty
Member:
Peggy
Zorn, M.A.
Course
Description:
This
course describes the problem of abuse and how it affects
the lives of children and adults. It describes the role
of the therapist in addressing these issues. It also
encourages the therapist to look within at their own
internal abuser. It looks at the role of politics and
society as a whole in this abuse epidemic. Objectives of the
course include:
- To develop a framework
for evaluating and treating abusive
relationships.
- To develop empathy for
all parties involved in abusive relationships, in
order to provide effective treatment.
- To provide an
understanding of how epidemic this issue is and
learn innovative an thorough ways of helping to
end these cycles.
- To confront issues within
which may hamper the therapist's ability to be
effective.
- To develop a systemic
framework for evaluating and treating abuse.
Required Texts:
(Please do not order your books for the current semester from this list.
It may not be up-to-date.)
- Herman, Judith Lewis, Trauma
and Recovery
- Pearlman, Laurie Ann,
& Saakvitne, Karen, Trauma and the
Therapist
- Whitfield, Charles, Codependence
A List of Recommended
Texts:- Mellody, Pia, Facing
Codependency
- Bradshaw, John, The Family
- Whitfield, Charles, Healing the Child Within
Course
Requirements:
- Complete all readings and
be prepared to discuss them.
- Prepare a guided journal
entry for each class.
- Interview with a
therapist who works with abuse issues - children
or adults, offenders or victims. Write a synopsis
of your interview as well as your response to
what you heard.
- You will be given a case
history and required to write a thorough
treatment plan and process for evaluation.
- At the end of our class
time you will be asked to write a synthesis paper
containing your reactions to the class and your
personal growth and change during the class
time in response to the class material.
- You will be responsible
for watching one movie about some sort of abusive
relationship and writing a movie review of it.
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