Individual Courses
Individual Courses
CFR offers non-matriculating students the opportunity to take courses in our Postgraduate Certificate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy.
Register for Individual Courses!
Courses may be taken individually for Continuing Education (CE) credit for Master’s level (or above) mental health professionals. Participants are awarded 30 CEs per 10-week course for $1,080* and 15 CEs per 5-week courses for $540*, contingent upon 100% class attendance.
*Prices are subject to change from year to year.
Please email Michelle Serious, Academic Administrator, regarding rates for current CFR students, staff, and alumni.
2nd Quarter Courses
Foundations in Systemic Therapy
Instructor: Susanne Flood
Dates: Mondays, November 18, 2024 – February 10, 2025
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
While models of Marital and Family Therapy are established on the foundation of theoretical concepts that support the practice of varied clinical approaches, there are clinical practices and theoretical formulations that are common to all systemic therapies. This course will highlight and define the common practices that are foundational to systemic practice. Didactic material, tapes of therapy and in class exercises will help explicate both the overt meaning and the experiential impact of these common clinical approaches to systemic therapy. In addition, this course will explore how different approaches with the same clients yield positive outcomes and how systemic therapists benefit from an integrative perspective that focuses on pathways of change that are suited specifically to the clients’ frame of reference and not bound by models.
Included in the class instruction will be an introduction to the use of Genograms in MFT. Distinctions between process and outcome will be reviewed with an emphasis on learning process-based interventions. The class will compare and contrast the following treatment approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Marital Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Collaborative Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Affective Reconstruction Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy.
Systemic Sex Therapy 2
Instructor: Tessa Kinsley and Ben Rathsmill
Dates: Wednesdays, December 4, 2024, to February 19, 2025 (no class December 25, 2024, and January 1, 2025)
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Systemic sex therapy 2 is the second of two 30-hour courses concentrating on various aspects of Sexology and Sex Therapy, viewed through the lens of the Intersystems Approach, a comprehensive, intimacy-based model, in which sexual issues are considered not only from an individual perspective, but also within the wider contexts of the family, the intimate relationship, and cultural, environmental, and other systems.
The topics covered in the course include, but are not limited to: general principles of sex therapy as well as more specific CBT and alternative approaches and interventions; the impact and use of technology in relationship to sex and intimacy; the interplay between sexual and mental health; physical issues which impact sex; sexual diversity, gender variance, transgender phenomena, alternative lifestyles, sexual minorities, and preconceptions about normalcy. Other subjects include sexual compulsivity, sexual aversion and asexuality.
The professional development of the Couple/Sex Therapist continues to be accentuated by focusing on: diversity factors, therapist sexual value system, comfort, integrity, ethics, knowledge, non-judgmental attitude, language, confidentiality, etc. Ongoing consideration continues to 1) the self of the therapist, and to 2) using a decolonizing lens when considering how “normal” sexual functioning is defined and who is defining it; as well as to 3) alternative forms of sexual expression; and 4) emerging definitions and forms of intimate relationships.
The course incorporates didactic presentations, discussion of reading materials, case presentations, role-play, and audio-visual demonstrations such as films and Internet presentations. In addition, topics related to the self of the therapist (sexual, ethnic, ethical value systems, comfort, knowledge, rapport, non-judgmental attitude, language, confidentiality, etc.) are emphasized through reaction papers and group discussions.
Diversity, Social Justice, and the Practice of Family Therapy
Instructor: Rabbi Julie Greenberg
Dates: Fridays, November 22, 2024 –February 10, 2025
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
The goals of this course are (1) to deepen understanding of the social dynamics of power, privilege and oppression in personal, interpersonal and political contexts; (2) to examine ways in which these dynamics affect human experience, and more specifically, the therapeutic relationship; (3) to develop awareness and sensitivity to clients’ religion, family structure, gender identity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, culture and physical ability; and (4) to develop clinical skills relating to systemic issues such as poverty and racism that affect clients.
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