Faculty Contact Information:
Clement Marcantonio, Ed.D.
Email: clement.marcantonio@Lnd.amedd.army.mil
Phone: DSN 486-8141 or civilian 06371-15917 | |
Consultation:
| 30 minutes before and after class and by appointment | |
Required Texts and Readings:
Goldenberg, I. & Goldenberg H. (2000).Family therapy: An overview (5th
ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Goldenberg, I. & Goldenberg H. (2000). Family exploration: Personal
viewpoints from multiple perspectives Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
McGoldrick, M., Gerson, R. & Shellenberger, S. (1999).Genograms:
Assessment and intervention(2nd ed.). New York: Norton.
Satir, V. (1988). The new peoplemaking. Mountain View, CA: Science and
Behavior Books.
Worden, M. (1999). Family therapy basics (2nd ed.). Pacific Grove,
CA: Brooks/Cole. | |
Supplementary Readings:
All graduate students should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library at http://www.umuc.edu/library/. The library contains a large number of full text academic journals that are free of charge and immediately available. The library homepage also contains a number of links related to improving students’ research and writing skills.
In addition, the following handouts will be available to students on the first day of class:
Kerr, M. E. (1988, September). Chronic anxiety and defining self. Atlantic Monthly.
Sherman, R. & Fredman, N. (1986). Handbook of structured techniques in marriage and family therapy. Levittown, PA: Brunner/ Mazzel.
Sykes-Wyle. (2000, September). The ties that bind. Psychotherapy Networker.
Toman, W. (1969). Family Constellations (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.
Whitaker, C. & Bumberry, W. (1988). Dancing with the family: a symbolic-experiential approach. Levittown, PA: Brunner/ Mazzel. | |
Recommended Journals:
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Course Description:
| Prerequisite: PSYC 502. This course provides an opportunity for students interested in counseling and mental health to study basic theories and application for the principles of family counseling. By using various theories, students will learn how the application of family theories is used in developing a holistic understanding of the dynamics of a family. Through an in-depth comprehension of family behavior, students will use various family counseling theories demonstrating their skill development in counseling families. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: GUCO 532 or EDCP 665. | |
Course Goals:
| This course is designed to enable students to become familiar with general theories of family counseling as they apply to people from different social, cultural and economic backgrounds. It will assist students in preparing for the comprehensive exam and will prepare them for professional practice. | |
Course Objectives:
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This course has the following objectives:
- Understanding and appreciating systemic and developmental frameworks applied to family therapy, including gender, sexuality, and multicultural factors.
- Awareness of the history and evolution of family therapy in the U.S.
- Familiarity with the several basic models of family therapy commonly in use.
- Familiarity with the most current evolving models of family therapy.
- Appreciation of the role of research in family systems and therapy.
- Consideration of training and supervision needs for skill development in family therapy.
- Understanding current professional issues and ethical standards in working with families.
- Knowledge of various professional counseling organizations including their legal and ethical standards.
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Grading Information:
Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:
A 92%
B 80 – 91%
C 70 – 79%
F Below 70%
Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F(a) is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion. Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog, available online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs or in your local Education Center.
The components toward the final grade include the following tasks:
. Three Class Quizzes in liieu of Midterm Exam.....20%
. Final Exam.......................................20%
. Family Assessment Critique.......................10%
. Term Paper.......................................25%
. Class Attendance & Participation.................25% | |
Course Requirements:
Graduate school at the masters level focuses on helping students obtain the education needed for success as professionals in their chosen fields. Thus, UMUC-Europe Graduate Programs and Bowie State University share the common goals of promoting excellence in academic scholarship through thoughtful inquiry and the skillful application of knowledge and theory for the betterment of society.
In order to maximize your graduate educational experience in general and this course in particular, you are required to:
. Attend all the sessions. This requirement is especially important because absence affects the weekend format of the class as well as the person who misses the class.
. Participate in the class in an active way. This requirement stresses the importance on the part of the students of being to talk about their families and their role as catalysts for change. It's all about taking ownership of the learning process.
. Do Counseling WebBoard assignments.
. Follow "APA" format. | |
Description of Course Requirements:
Participate in classroom discussions: You are expected to come to class prepared to engage in all discussions in a professional and informed manner. Usually this requires two to three hours of additional for every hour of a face-to-face class and approximately ten hours of preparation per week for a DE class.
Write graduate level papers or case studies: You are required to conduct professional-level research, including appropriately citing works of others and avoiding plagiarism. Plan on committing approximately 150 hours over the duration of this course to producing professional level deliverables.
Orally/visually present prepared material: You are required to present your research in a professional manner. In a face-to-face course, this typically means an oral presentation accompanied by appropriate visual material.
Complete one or more written examination(s): The examination process in this class will assist you in developing the writing and critical thinking skills necessary to successfully passing the comprehensive exam required of all graduate students. The questions used for this course will either be taken directly from past comprehensive exams or written as though to be included on a comprehensive exam.
Do Counseling WebBoard Assignments: There will be assignments to be posted on the GUCO 532 Web Board. Primary amongst these are "Reactions Papers": at the end of each of the weekends, each student wil write a reaction paper of the weekend experience. The paper is approximately one pge in length and is to focus on what the student has learned in that weekend, and how that learning will be personally and professionally beneficial. This can also be a critical reaction to the weekend identifying what has been useful or not been useful, and what would be useful in future classes. The Reaction Paper is to be posted on the Web Board by Wednesday following each weekend. WEb Board Assignments will count as part of class participation.
Written Assignments
. Family Journal: students will write 3-4 pages per week (handwritten
or typed) in some type of bound journal. The weekly entries should
reflect their understanding of theoretical perspectives as well as
class discussions and experiences as they bear on their own family
of origin or a family they are familiar with. Journals will be
collected on the next to the last class period. If they desire that
the instructor not read a certain journal entry, they are advised
to staple those pages together. Your privacy will be respected.
. Term Paper: Students are free to select a topic for the course Term
Paper from any of the three projects listed below.
a) Family Biography.The writing of your family biography should be
follow the following guidelines:
. Describe your parents' marriage. Include a description of
their courtship and changes in their relationship over
time.
. Describe the mutual influence of the different generations
on each other.
. How did the birth and growth of various children affect
affect the marriage? How did the marriage affect the
various children?
. What part did the extended family play?
. You will probably want to look at each parent as an
individual, as a member of the couple subsystem, and
and as a member the parental subsystem.
. How has your parents' marriage affected your intimate
relationship?
It's important to state that the biographical narrative
should reflect how family systems are organized with
exquisite accuracy around certain preexisting patterns
embedded in every family. Further discussion will follow
in class.
b) Family Analysis: Select a full-length biography (ex. Clinton,
Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush families) or one of the following
movies depicting a fictional family fo analysis: The Burning
Bed, Ordinary People, The War of the Roses, On Golden Pond.
Your analysis should be based on the theoretical approach
of a particular family theory presented in class. Basically,
it should present a logical,concise view/explanation of the
family as an interactional system. Further guidance will be
given on the first day of class.
. Select a topic of interest to you in the area of family
systems and counseling for a term paper. Prior approval and
discussion with instructor is required.
The Term Paper is to be written in APA format.Grammar, punctuation, and spelling should be excellent and reflect graduate level ability. Your writing style should make your meaning clear. Extensions are granted only on request and for circumstances beyond the control of the student.To safe guard against loss, always keep a second copy of your papers before giving the original to the instructor.Make the paper as long as necessary to do an excellent, meaning piece of work,
but no longer than 15 pages.
. Review the Models of Systems Assessment: Circumplex Model of
Family Sytems (Olson), Beavers Systems Model of Family Functioning
(Beavers)and McMaster Approach to Families. Of the three models,
choose the one that speaks most directly to your theoretical
approach. Give reasons for your choice. Length of paper 3-4 pages.
Source: Family Therapy Basics by Mark Worden Chapter 4,page 73. | |
Course Schedule:
This schedule presents 16 units or modules, with each unit corresponding to a regular three-hour weekday meeting, a half-day on weekends, or a full week of DE.
Weekends: 22/23 OCT;5/6 & 19/20 NOV;10/11 DEC
Initial meeting: 22-23 October 2005 (weekend format)
Introductions
Review of syllabus
Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements
Orientation to subject
Adopting a Family Relationship Framework
Family Development: Continuity and Change
Goldenberg, Chapters 1 & 2
Family Exploration Workbook Exercises 1 & 2
Class Exercise
Second meeting: The Family as a Psychosocial System
Family Exploration Workbook Exercises, Ch 4
Goldenberg, Ch 4
Transgenerational Models: The Bowen Family Therapy
Goldenberg Ch 8; Family Exploration Workbook 4
(Bowen Theory) Family is the Matrix out of which
people come. A multi-generational view of family is
crucial. Goal is differentiation of self from
undifferented family ego mass.
Supplementatry reading:
. Kerr, M. E. (1988, September). Chronic anxiety and defining self. Atlantic Monthly.
. Toman, W. (1969). Family Constellations (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.
Third meeting: Contextual Therapy: Boszormenyi-Nagy
Goldenberg Ch 8
Supplementary reading:
. Sykes-Wyle. (2000, September). The ties that bind. Psychotherapy Networker.
Family members must be held ethically
accountable for their behavior with one another
and must learn to balance entitlement and
indebtedness. We carry within invisible
visible.
Class exercices, Sculpting
Fourth meeting: Training Video: From Generation to Generation
Discussion, Class Exercises
Fifth meeting: Weekend Two, 5-6 November 2005
Class Quiz #1
Video of counseling session (Bowen)
Discussion
Experiential Model of Family Therapy (Whitaker)
Goldenberg, Ch 7
Family Exploration Workbook 7
Supplementary Reading:
. Whitaker, C. & Bumberry, W. (1988). Dancing with the family: a symbolic-experiential approach. Levittown, PA: Brunner/ Mazzel.
Families are changed as result of their effective
or emotional experiences, not through education. We
gain access to our experiences non-verbally or
symbolically through unstated but striking processes
occurring within the family.
Sixth meeting: Training Video with Carl Whitaker
Class Discussion
Class Excercises
Seventh meeting: The Human Validation Process Model (Satir)
New People Making
Goldenberg, Ch 7, Read "New People Making"
Family is an emotional system, which is
expressed through communication. Family life
centers around the abillity to communicate.
Low self-worth causes faulty communication in
family systems.
Eighth meeting: Satir's Validation Model (continued)
Class Exercises
Sculpting
Ninth meeting: Weekend Three, 19-20 November 2005
Class Quiz #2
The Structural Model of Family Therapy (Minuchin)
Goldenberg, Ch 9, Family Exploration Workbook 9
Problem are maintained by dysfunctional family
structures. Family members relate according to
certain arrangements which govern transactions.
Tenth meeting: Training video with Minuchin
Class discussion
MRI Interactional Family Therapy
Goldenberg, Ch 10, Family Exploration Workbook 10
You cannot not communicate. Family is an
interacting network in which every member from
the day-old baby to the 70-year old grandfather
influences, and in turn is influenced by the nature
of the entire system. Basic concepts include:
family homeostasis, double bind, therapeutic
paradox, circularity and positive connotation.
Eleventh meeting: Strategic Family Therapy (Jay Haley)
Uncommon Therapy (Milton Erickson)
Goldenberg, Ch 10
Class Excercises
Twelfth meeting: Milan Systemic Family Therapy
Questioning Family Belief Systems
Goldenber, Ch 11, Family Exploration Workbook 11
Training video with the Milano Team
Thirteenth meeting: Weekend Four, 10-11 December 2005
Class Quiz #3
Evolving Models of Family Therapy
Solution Focused Therapy
Goldenberg, Ch 13 Family Exploration Workbook 13
Fourteenth meeting: Narrative Therapy
Self-Narratives and Cultural Narratives
Therapeutic Conversations
Therapeutic Ceremonies, Letters
Goldendberg, Ch 14 Family Exploration 14
Fifteenth meeting: Psychoeducational Family Therapy
Family Therapy Research
Becoming a Family Therapist
Goldenberg, Chapters 15,16,17
Sixteenth meeting: Student presentations
Course evaluations
Final Exam | |
Academic Policies:
Note: Any written assignment in this course may be submitted to TurnItIn.Com. This statement constitutes prior notice.
The official university policy on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml. Section I.C. states: "Faculty may determine if the resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC), partially or in its entirety, is acceptable when assigning a grade on that piece of course work. Faculty must provide this information in their written syllabi. If the resubmission of course work is deemed to be unacceptable, a charge may not be brought under this Policy and will be handled as indicated in the written syllabi."
Please refer to Description of Course Requirements for specific information on how resubmissions will be treated in this course and to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center. | |
Faculty Bio:
| Dr. Clement Marcantonio earned Doctor of Education degree in Psychology, Marriage and Family Counseling at the University of Northern Colorado; he did post-doctoral training at Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, CA and at Graduate School of Family Therapy at St. Rafael, CA; received advanced training at the Milano Institute of Family Therapy,Italy; he is a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists(AAMFT) and National Certified Counselor (NCC); has taught graduate course in excess of 20 years for the University of Southern Cal, Boston University and University of Maryland. | |