Family and Marital PsychotherapyWith a Postgraduate Degree in Family Sciences
Advanced postgraduate training in couples and family psychotherapy, focused on understanding relational dynamics and developing assessment and intervention strategies through a systemic approach.
Description
A second-level university postgraduate program that expands, develops, and combines theory and practice, and knowledge about marriage and the family, for the resolution of personal, marital, and family problems.
The program equips professionals with the instruments that qualify them in the therapeutic, research, and training fields, in order to foster the development of marriage and the family, approached systematically from a personalist perspective.
Family psychotherapists have a dual purpose: directly fostering the personal maturity of each spouse, or through systemic effect, enabling the family to reach and maintain a functional level of relationship.
Objectives
- Systematically train professionals in theoretical-conceptual, clinical (detection, assessment, treatment), and research and prevention skills, with an ethical and social commitment to the person, marriage, and the family.
- Provide a solid theoretical foundation and practical experience to perfect the practice of family and marital therapy, adapting principles and techniques to each specific person, marriage, and family.
Graduate profile
The Family and Marital Psychotherapist is a professional with full command of family and couple dynamics. Through the optimal use of specific therapeutic tools, they will accompany families toward emotional stability. Within the process, they will be equipped to:
- Identify distortions in affectivity, communication, hierarchy, boundaries, and roles, and their impact on personal disorders and interpersonal conflicts.
- Form sound professional judgment on the main psychopathological factors affecting marriage and the family.
- Know and apply the main psychotherapeutic techniques in treating sexual disorders and dysfunctions in clinical practice.
- Carry out proper intervention at each developmental stage of the family and the couple, for the better development of the person and the family within Guatemalan society.
- Apply mediation and conflict-resolution skills to the couple, the family, the family business, and other organizations in which family members take part.
Curriculum
Open each year to see its courses by term.
1st Semester· 4 courses
January–June
- Trauma Intervention
- Systemic Family Therapy I
- Neurobiology of Addictions
- Specific Intervention Techniques
Management Courses
- General Accounting
2nd Semester· 5 courses
July–November
- Intervention in Non-Clinical Contexts
- Systemic Family Therapy II
- Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
- Individual Therapy
- Supervised Practice I
Management Courses
- Management and Organizational Behavior
3rd Semester· 4 courses
January–June
- Religious Psychopathology
- Monographic Seminar
- Psychopathology and the Family I
- Couples Therapy I
Management Courses
- Finance
4th Semester· 5 courses
July–November
- Assessment and Research with Families
- Economics and the Family
- Psychopathology and the Family II
- Couples Therapy II
- Supervised Practice II
Management Courses
- Business Strategy
About the starred courses
The Management Courses are a guide so that you can run your own business, clinic, or project. One subject is taken per quarter, and equivalences are accepted.
2026 curriculum endorsed by Galileo University · subject to update
* Grants an intermediate postgraduate qualification in Family Sciences.