This course will introduce students to interventions used outside the traditional therapeutic dyad. Embedded within a lifespan, developmental perspective, students will learn about the different theories underlying couple and family dysfunction, and the specific interventions designed to promote adaptive functioning in couples and families. Particular emphasis will be placed on evidence-based theory and treatment featuring family systems, multicultural perspectives and problem-solving, cognitive behavioural therapies. Clinical issues that will be addressed include: infidelity, partner violence, sexual dysfunction as well as using the couple context to treat individual psychopathology in one of the partners. Recognizing the social construction of definitions of couple and family health, students will consider perspectives of race, ethnic status and sexual orientation when discussing case formulation and treatment planning.