Course Lecturer: CAFT 601 Anti-Oppressive Practice in Couple & Family Therapy

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Name of Hiring Unit: School of Social Work

Course: CAFT 601 – Anti-Oppressive Practice in Couple & Family Therapy, Section 001, CRN 388

Term/Time/Location: Summer 2026, April 28 - June 9, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:55-15:55, Location TBD

Number of Credits, Number of Course Hours, Value of Contract: 3, 39, $11,479

TQRs:

Demonstrated clinical & teaching experience in the following competencies:

AAMFT:

Domain 1: Admission to Treatment

Domain 2: Clinical Assessment & Diagnosis

Domain 3: Treatment Planning & Case Management

Domain 4: Therapeutic Interventions

Domain 5: Legal Issues, Ethics, & Standards

Professional Order of Social Workers and Couple and Family Therapists of Québec (OTSTCFQ)

1. Establish treatment suitability for psychotherapy

4. Realize a psychotherapeutic treatment.

5. Ensure collaborative partnerships

6. Respect the legal, moral, ethical, and regulatory provisions for marriage and family therapy

7. Contribute to the evolution of the professional practice

Professional Order of Psychologists of Quebec (OPQ)

Theoretical models of intervention

Critical Tools

Classification of Mental Disorders

Reserved Acts (OTSTCFQ)

Evaluation of a person with a mental or neuropsychological disorder certified by a diagnosis or by a skilled professional

Demonstrated clinical & teaching experience in the following areas:

• The reserved act designated for couple and family therapists: Evaluation of a person with a mental or neuropsychological disorder certified by a diagnosis or by a skilled professional.
• Multicultural practice with its application to family therapy;
• Integration of an attachment developmental framework incorporating psychoanalytic concepts of individuation and how immigration represents the third individuation adapting to one’s host culture (family reintegration trauma);
• Cultural, migratory and familial processes as useful constructs for family psychotherapy;
• Integrate systems and communication theory through a systemic narrative construction as clients construct their immigration narrative and adaptation to the host culture;
• Attachment, identity and trauma;
• Race, culture, class, ethnicity, immigration, and gender in both family assessment and treatment (i.e., ethnic and cultural context of treating psychiatric disorders within the context of the family system, factors influencing ethnic identity and its influence on family processes).
• The role of culture and its intersection with the family life cycle.
• The consciousness of ethnic identity with different cultural groups and how the immigration trajectory impacts the family system.
• The development of a cultural competency in working with multicultural families.
• Lecture will include theoretical overview and clinical application. Clinical material will be illustrated through case presentations, class discussions, videotapes and clinical exercises.