HUS 230 - Family Counseling in Military and Veteran Populations

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
Examine the diverse military family structure. Explore challenges facing military families, such as relocation, deployment and separation, injury, grief and loss, addiction and intimate partner violence. Apply family counseling techniques and processes to facilitate change within the familial relationships.

Note: Typically offered OL; fall and spring terms.

Course Outcomes:

Explain the challenges facing military families, such as relocation, deployment and separation, post-deployment transition, coping with injury, loss and death, intimate partner violence, substance abuse and addiction.
Describe the diverse military family characteristics including, but not limited to, race, age, culture, ability/disability, sexual orientation, and religion.
Apply family counseling theories, such as, Structural Family Counseling, Strategic Family Counseling, Bowen Systems Family Counseling, and Brief Solution Focused Family Counseling.
Summarize and apply marital counseling techniques for issues such as grief and loss and conflict resolution.
Examine case studies related to military and veteran families.