SYLLABUS

Semester and Year: Spring, 2010

Course Number: Somatics 5605

Course Title: Families and

Units: 3

Instructor: Eva Leveton

E-mail Address: [email protected]

Course Description: This course is intended to serve as an orientation to family structure, family dynamics and family therapy. As the instructor is one of the original trainees in Family Therapy from the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, the course will use Family Systems Theory and Family Communication as well as demonstrating individual work using the Gestalt model as well as systemic work using . Other theories developed by Minuchin, Bowen, Whitaker, and Richard Schwarz will also be demonstrated and discussed. Students will be expected to work experientially and to use their own family histories in order to gain insight into the course material. Videotapes and demonstrations of clinical work will give the students a beginning acquaintance with the clinical work in this rich and diverse field.

Learning Objectives: When this course is complete, the student will be able to: 1. Have an in-depth understanding of family systems, family communication, and individual work in family therapy. 2. Gain insight into the theoretical shifts and progressions in the field. 3. Gain insight into their own family process. And the use of self in clinical work. 4. Use experiential techniques as a part of clinical work. 5. Decide which of the various family systems approaches best addresses their own style.

Percentage of Course Composed of: Lecture: 30% Discussion: 30% Experiential: 40%

Assignment Due Date Percentage toward Final Grade 1. Family Crucible Paper 2/22/10 15% 2. Use of Self or Family Process Observation 3/22/10 15% 3. Final Paper 4/19/10 30% .

Required Texts and/or Course Reader:

The Family Crucible, by C. Whitaker & A. Napier Family Therapy, Concepts and Methods, 7th Ed. By Michael P. Nichols and Richard C. Schwarz. Reader: on Eres

Recommended Texts and Research Bibliography: : Conjoint Family Therapy (revised edition) by Virginia Satir Families and Family Therapy, by Family Therapy in Clinical Practice by Murray Bowen Behind the One-Way Mirror by Cloe Madanes Counseling Today's Families, by Goldenberg , H. The Narcissistic Family, by Donaldson-Pressman Art of Strategic Therapy, Jay Haley and M.Richeport-Haley Uncommon Therapy by Jay Haley Using in Family Therapy by Michelle Ritterman Paradox and Counterparadox by Palazzoli, Cecchin, Prata, and Boscolo Re-Authoring Lives: Interviews and Essays by Michael White Family Therapy: An Intimate Journey by Lynn Hoffman Ethnicity and Family Therapy by Monica McGoldrick et. al. Revisioning Family Therapy ed. by Monica McGoldrick Internal Family Systems by R. Schwartz

Instructor Biography: Eva Leveton, M.S., MFT is one of the original Trainees in Intensive Family Therapy at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto where she studied with Virginia Satir, who wrote an Introduction to her book Adolescent Crisis, Approaches in Family Therapy (out of print), Don Jackson, Paul Watzlavick, and Fred Ford. Together with her husband, Alan Leveton, M.D., and Ben Handelman, MSW, she founded the San Francisco Family Therapy Center, where she practiced and taught Family Therapy for 28 years. She has taught family therapy widely in the US and in the world, concentrating on Germany and China in the past two years, and has published widely. She is currently semi-retired, has a small family practice, and continues to teach abroad. She has always combined family therapy with experiential techniques, particularly psychodrama, which she has also taught and practiced since the 60’s. Her acquaintance with Somatics also dates back to the 60’s when she became acquainted with both Don Johnson and Ian Grand and participated in their work. As Associate Professor at CIIS, has facilitated process groups for Somatics. She is the recipient of the Zerka T. Moreno Award for Individual Contribution to the field of Psychodrama. Her family life is devoted to her husband of 39 years, her two sons and their partners, and her three delightful and beautiful grandchildren, and her favorite escape from all the above is the dance and the garden.