Clinical Internship in Bowen Family Systems Theory and Therapy – Year One

Details

Dates: Sept 2023-June 2024
Times: Tuesdays for 4 hours (which includes 2 hours of group supervision) and one evening a month for a 3-hour clinical meeting. Trainees may begin seeing clients in December.

Supervision: Weekly 2-hour group supervision (outlined above) and up to 16 hours of individual supervision sessions, depending on caseload.
Location: Online using Zoom
Tuition: $2,000

Program Outline: Click here.

Program Description

The program is designed to provide a thorough introduction to Bowen family systems theory and contributes to students becoming competent relationship, family, and clinical counsellors, school counsellors, pastoral counsellors and social workers.

Learning Objectives

• To provide the trainee with a thorough introduction to systems thinking from the perspective of Bowen Theory, its methods and techniques
• To apply the theory to efforts in one’s own family, in clinical work and, when applicable, in the workplace
• To relate Bowen Theory to knowledge from the natural sciences and to theological understanding
• To introduce trainees to systems research

Tuition Payment Option

The tuition for the first year is $2,000. A $200 deposit is due three weeks prior to the start of the program. $1,000 is due on the first day of class and the remaining $800 is due on December 15^th.

“The theory postulates that far more human activity is governed by man’s (sic) emotional system than he has been willing to admit, and there is far more similarity than dissimilarity between the “dance of life” in lower forms and the “dance of life” in human forms.”