Master's Level Entry
Program Course Sequencing OverviewÌýÌý
FallÌý
CAFT 600
Couple&Fam Therapy Pre-Practic
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The development of practical skills in the area of couple and family therapy. Introduction to the concept of common factors in the psychotherapy process, assessment, foundational therapeutic competencies and the application of orientation specific empirically supported treatment competencies.
Offered by: Social Work
- Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the M.Sc.(Applied) Couple and Family Therapy program or with departmental permission.
CAFT 603
Res Methods for C&F Therapists
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Essential research skills for couple and family therapists, including evaluation of clinical research literature and the basics in designing and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research with a particular emphasis on understanding the relevance of research for clinical practice.
Offered by: Social Work
- Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the M.Sc.(Applied) Couple and Family Therapy program or with departmental permission.
SWRK 622
Understanding & Assessing Fam
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: The changing family system and overview of recent advancements in family assessment. Family developmental and systemic applications, with attention to the heterogeneity and diversity of the post-modern family, integrating contextual, gender, cultural and relational perspectives through the evaluation process.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- Laura El-Hachem, Stephen Legari
CAFT 608
Hum Devel Across Lifespan:C&FT
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Advanced human development specific to the needs of a couple and family therapist. Focus on child, adolescence and early adult development, human sexuality, developmental impact of divorce, remarriage, birth, adoption and death on members of a family.
Offered by: Social Work
- Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the M.Sc.(Applied) Couple and Family Therapy program or with departmental permission.
Winter
SWRK 610
Family Treatment
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: An advanced seminar on techniques and practice of current therapies.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- Runa Reta, Laura El-Hachem
SWRK 623
Couple Therapy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: The goal of this course is to introduce students to the major models of couple therapy. The course will be divided into four core theoretical approaches to couple therapy: integrated systemic therapy for couples, emotionally focused therapy for couples, mentalizing based couple therapy, and cognitive behavioural marital therapy. Common factors will be explored such as communication skills, therapeutic alliance and client/therapist characteristics, in couple treatment. Models will be presented integrating the lens of gender, race, poverty, social class, and multiculturalism into couple treatment.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- Nauveen R Dubash, Claire Gregor
SWRK 630
Adult Mental Health
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: The objective of this course will be to familiarize students with theories of psychopathology including diagnostic systems, the history of the study of psychopathology and treatment of mental illness. Emphasis will be placed on understanding abnormal behaviour in adults (e.g. anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorders, substance abuse, psychotic disorders and affective disorders and somatization disorders).
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- Sarah Tarshis, Stephen Legari
CAFT 604
Sex, Sexuality,&Contemp Issues
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Couples and families dealing with challenges living in contemporary society. Intersections between diversity and mental health, gender roles and identities, separation/divorce including custody and access, single parent, reconstituted and same sex families, inter-cultural families, legal and family issues in adoption and foster families.
Offered by: Social Work
Summer
Summer course schedule will be available in January.
CAFT 601
Anti-Oppressive Practice: C&FT
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The influence of race, culture, class, ethnicity, immigration, sexual orientation and gender in the assessment and treatment processes of couple and family therapy.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CAFT 605
Adv Fam Treat Across the Life
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Advanced practice in four core models of family therapy in relation to problems pertaining to children, adolescents, and adults from middle adulthood to later life; four clinical models. Clinical models include: EFT-humanistic, cognitive behavioural family therapy, psychodynamic and systemic family therapy.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CAFT 606
Intern 1 in Couple&Fam Therapy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The first portion of the internship consists of direct contact with clients, clinical supervision, a didactic seminar series, psychotherapy rounds and complementary clinical activities. Students will participate in a series of seminars on advanced systemic and communication models. Students will participate in an integrative seminar designed to facilitate the integration of their advancing knowledge and clinical skills.
Offered by: Social Work
- Prerequisite(s):SWRK 660 or equivalent with permission of instructor. SWRK 622 or equivalent with permission of instructor. SWRK 610 or equivalent with permission of instructor.
- The combination of three portions (CAFT 606, CAFT 611, CAFT 612) of the internship totals 500 hours of direct client contact, 100 hours individual supervision and 200 hours of clinical activities related to the practice of psychotherapy.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
CAFT 607
Legal,Ethical&Prof Issues:C&FT
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Practicing in a legally-sound and ethically-informed manner as a couple and family therapist. Focus on ethical decision making processes, codes of ethical conduct, legislative and regulatory frameworks for practice, specific laws, regulations and standards.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Fall
CAFT 602
Advanced Assessment in C&FT
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Integration of models of psychopathology and assessment into couple and family therapy. Focus will be on formulation of clinical impressions, differential systemic models of assessment, models and measures of systemic assessment and the intersection between classification of mental disorders, and relational/systemic formulations of mental health and mental illness.
Offered by: Social Work
- Prerequisite(s) CAFT 600 and SWRK 622 and SWRK 610 or equivalent with permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the M.Sc.(Applied) Couple and Family Therapy program or with departmental permission.
CAFT 611
Intern 2 in Couple&Fam Therapy
6 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The second portion of the internship consists of direct contact with clients, clinical supervision, a didactic seminar series, psychotherapy rounds and complementary clinical activities. Students will participate in a series of seminars geared to providing further didactic training in the legal and organizational aspects and ethics and deontology as applied to specific case examples being experienced by students in their internship experiences. Also, participation in an integrative seminar designed to facilitate the integration of advancing knowledge and clinical skills.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Alison M Carpenter
- Alison M Carpenter
Winter
CAFT 609
Advanced Couple Therapy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The four core modalities of couple therapy practice, EFT-humanistic, cognitive behavioural, psychodynamic and systemic, and communications, including common factors and models integrating the lens of gender, race, poverty and social class, and multiculturalism into couple treatment.
Offered by: Social Work
- Prerequisite(s) SWRK 623 or equivalent with permission of instructor.
CAFT 610
Biolog Foun of Behav for C&FTs
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The biology and neuropsychology of couple and family therapy. Neural physiology and pathophysiology, development, anatomy and physiology of the human sensory, motor, emotional, perceptual and cognitive systems, formulation of clinical impressions, and applications and limitations of biological and psychological treatments will be explored.
Offered by: Social Work
CAFT 612
Intern 3 in Couple&Fam Therapy
6 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The third portion of the internship consists of direct contact with clients, clinical supervision, a didactic seminar series, psychotherapy rounds and complementary clinical activities. In this course, students will participate in a series of seminars provided by faculty experts on the four models of treatment: (Humanistic, Systemic) cognitive behavioural couple and family therapy (CBMT), attachment focused and mentalizing based therapy for couples and families (Psychodynamic) and systemic family therapy (Systemic). Students will participate in an integrative seminar designed to facilitate the integration of their advancing knowledge and clinical skills.
Offered by: Social Work
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
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Plus one Complementary Course (3 credits)
SWRK 621
Seminar on Trauma & Resilience
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: Examination of the concepts of trauma and resilience within a comparative and international context. Exploration of theory, research, and practice interventions concerning trauma and resilience, both nationally and globally. Analysis of the ways in which culture, ethnicity, gender, class, and age shape experiences of trauma and recovery.
Offered by: Social Work
SWRK 628
Violence against Women
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: Discussion of the psychological, social and political factors which create and maintain a society where male violence against the women they love occurs. A feminist theoretical perspective will be developed and analyzed. Treatment approaches will be considered focussing on interventive strategies to help both the battered and the batterers.
Offered by: Social Work
SWRK 635
Adv Clinical Sem: Use of Self
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: Psychological selves in relation to the work done with clients, including psychoanalytic theory, object relations, attachment theory, transference.
Offered by: Social Work
SWRK 655
Seminar on Aging
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: Advanced graduate seminar which focuses on a critical examination of historical and contemporary theories and practice models in gerontological social work.
Offered by: Social Work
- Specific content will vary from year to year to allow for in-depth exploration of current topics in aging.
SWRK 657
Child/Adolescent Mntl Health
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: Canadian mental health policies and practices related to children and adolescents, including historical trends in the conceptualization of mental illness/wellness, and foundations of child/adolescent DSM diagnoses and best practice approaches.
Offered by: Social Work
SWRK 668
Living w/Illness,Loss&Bereave
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: This seminar addresses the psycho-social concerns of patients and family members living with illness and/or non-bereavement loss. An interdisciplinary theoretical perspective is combined with clinical practice interventions. Special attention will be given to the role of the social worker.
Offered by: Social Work
SWRK 669
Course not available
SWRK 670
Seminar on Caregiving
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Work: Critical engagement with existing knowledge claims in the social work literature on caregiving and examination of the impact of policy and practice on the lives of caregivers. Special emphasis is placed upon advances in social work practice with older people and people with disabilities.
Offered by: Social Work
CAFT 613
CFT Internal Practicum
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: This course will provide opportunity for the development of practice skills in the area of Couple and Family Therapy within an internal clinic setting to prepare students for integration into external clinical internship sites. Students will participate, as observers and clinicians, in clinical research, and clinical practice with members of the community, within the McGill Couple and Family Therapy Clinic. The professor, within the internal clinic, will provide opportunities for in-depth clinical training and supervision.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
EDPC 503
Inter. Relationships&Sexuality
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling): Situated in sexuality studies and education this course explores intra and interpersonal relationships through examining the intersections of sexuality with a diversity of identities, expressions and communities. The course addresses the ways in which current and emerging technologies influence and inform understandings of sexuality and the resulting effect on how people negotiate sexual relationships.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
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Advanced Level Entry
Program Course Sequencing Overview
Fall
CAFT 602
Advanced Assessment in C&FT
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Integration of models of psychopathology and assessment into couple and family therapy. Focus will be on formulation of clinical impressions, differential systemic models of assessment, models and measures of systemic assessment and the intersection between classification of mental disorders, and relational/systemic formulations of mental health and mental illness.
Offered by: Social Work
- Prerequisite(s) CAFT 600 and SWRK 622 and SWRK 610 or equivalent with permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the M.Sc.(Applied) Couple and Family Therapy program or with departmental permission.
CAFT 600
Couple&Fam Therapy Pre-Practic
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The development of practical skills in the area of couple and family therapy. Introduction to the concept of common factors in the psychotherapy process, assessment, foundational therapeutic competencies and the application of orientation specific empirically supported treatment competencies.
Offered by: Social Work
- Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the M.Sc.(Applied) Couple and Family Therapy program or with departmental permission.
CAFT 603
Res Methods for C&F Therapists
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Essential research skills for couple and family therapists, including evaluation of clinical research literature and the basics in designing and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research with a particular emphasis on understanding the relevance of research for clinical practice.
Offered by: Social Work
- Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the M.Sc.(Applied) Couple and Family Therapy program or with departmental permission.
CAFT 606
Intern 1 in Couple&Fam Therapy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The first portion of the internship consists of direct contact with clients, clinical supervision, a didactic seminar series, psychotherapy rounds and complementary clinical activities. Students will participate in a series of seminars on advanced systemic and communication models. Students will participate in an integrative seminar designed to facilitate the integration of their advancing knowledge and clinical skills.
Offered by: Social Work
- Prerequisite(s):SWRK 660 or equivalent with permission of instructor. SWRK 622 or equivalent with permission of instructor. SWRK 610 or equivalent with permission of instructor.
- The combination of three portions (CAFT 606, CAFT 611, CAFT 612) of the internship totals 500 hours of direct client contact, 100 hours individual supervision and 200 hours of clinical activities related to the practice of psychotherapy.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
CAFT 608
Hum Devel Across Lifespan:C&FT
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Advanced human development specific to the needs of a couple and family therapist. Focus on child, adolescence and early adult development, human sexuality, developmental impact of divorce, remarriage, birth, adoption and death on members of a family.
Offered by: Social Work
- Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the M.Sc.(Applied) Couple and Family Therapy program or with departmental permission.
Winter
CAFT 604
Sex, Sexuality,&Contemp Issues
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Couples and families dealing with challenges living in contemporary society. Intersections between diversity and mental health, gender roles and identities, separation/divorce including custody and access, single parent, reconstituted and same sex families, inter-cultural families, legal and family issues in adoption and foster families.
Offered by: Social Work
CAFT 611
Intern 2 in Couple&Fam Therapy
6 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The second portion of the internship consists of direct contact with clients, clinical supervision, a didactic seminar series, psychotherapy rounds and complementary clinical activities. Students will participate in a series of seminars geared to providing further didactic training in the legal and organizational aspects and ethics and deontology as applied to specific case examples being experienced by students in their internship experiences. Also, participation in an integrative seminar designed to facilitate the integration of advancing knowledge and clinical skills.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Alison M Carpenter
- Alison M Carpenter
CAFT 609
Advanced Couple Therapy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The four core modalities of couple therapy practice, EFT-humanistic, cognitive behavioural, psychodynamic and systemic, and communications, including common factors and models integrating the lens of gender, race, poverty and social class, and multiculturalism into couple treatment.
Offered by: Social Work
- Prerequisite(s) SWRK 623 or equivalent with permission of instructor.
CAFT 610
Biolog Foun of Behav for C&FTs
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The biology and neuropsychology of couple and family therapy. Neural physiology and pathophysiology, development, anatomy and physiology of the human sensory, motor, emotional, perceptual and cognitive systems, formulation of clinical impressions, and applications and limitations of biological and psychological treatments will be explored.
Offered by: Social Work
Summer
Summer course schedule will be available in January.
CAFT 601
Anti-Oppressive Practice: C&FT
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The influence of race, culture, class, ethnicity, immigration, sexual orientation and gender in the assessment and treatment processes of couple and family therapy.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CAFT 605
Adv Fam Treat Across the Life
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Advanced practice in four core models of family therapy in relation to problems pertaining to children, adolescents, and adults from middle adulthood to later life; four clinical models. Clinical models include: EFT-humanistic, cognitive behavioural family therapy, psychodynamic and systemic family therapy.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CAFT 607
Legal,Ethical&Prof Issues:C&FT
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: Practicing in a legally-sound and ethically-informed manner as a couple and family therapist. Focus on ethical decision making processes, codes of ethical conduct, legislative and regulatory frameworks for practice, specific laws, regulations and standards.
Offered by: Social Work
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
CAFT 612
Intern 3 in Couple&Fam Therapy
6 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Couple and Family Therapy: The third portion of the internship consists of direct contact with clients, clinical supervision, a didactic seminar series, psychotherapy rounds and complementary clinical activities. In this course, students will participate in a series of seminars provided by faculty experts on the four models of treatment: (Humanistic, Systemic) cognitive behavioural couple and family therapy (CBMT), attachment focused and mentalizing based therapy for couples and families (Psychodynamic) and systemic family therapy (Systemic). Students will participate in an integrative seminar designed to facilitate the integration of their advancing knowledge and clinical skills.
Offered by: Social Work
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
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