Graduate Courses
SOWK 616: Psychotherapy with Adults
Description
This course focuses on the content and processes of psychotherapy and the strategic use of therapeutic communications with adults. The focus will include psychotherapy informed by psychodynamic and developmental frameworks.
The therapeutic alliance is explored, including issues of support, interpretation, role of empathic connection, disclosure, and the importance of listening. Issues of race, culture, and ethnicity are presented as central in the development of the treatment relationship and ongoing therapy. The basis and importance of practice evaluation for ongoing psychotherapy are presented.
