Cultural, Ethnic, and Gender Issues in Marriage and Family Therapy

This course explores how marriages, families, and family therapy practice are influenced by culture, including ethnicity, region, social class, religion, and gender. Students will begin the course examining their personal cultural influences and consider how these will impact their relationships with families that they will be helping. Current cultural and political issues will be considered as they impact families and the therapeutic relationship. The experience of gender in relationship to Christian marriages and marital therapy is a major topic of the course.