Educational Outcomes
As a graduate of our master's degree in marriage and family therapy, you must be able to:
- Complete all coursework and clinical requirements with a minimum grade of B/3.0.
- Complete 63-66 semester hours of core and specialized interest courses to augment background in individual, couple, and family therapy.
- Maintain respect for differences and honor factors that produce diversity in our community, including age, culture, environment, ethnicity, gender, health/ability, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, spirituality, and socioeconomic status.
- Identify the foundations and contemporary conceptual directions of the field of marriage and family therapy.
- Interpret and apply the major models of marriage, couple, and family therapy.
- Analyze a wide variety of presenting clinical problems in the treatment of individuals, couples, and families from a relational/systemic perspective.
- Address contemporary issues in the treatment of individuals, couples, and families:
- gender, sexual functioning, and sexual orientation concerns
- physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
- substance abuse and addictions
- Diagnose psychopharmacological, physical health, and mental health issues using traditional pyschodiagnostic and relational categories.
- Examine individual and family development across the lifespan.
- Maintain a professional identity, engage in professional socialization, and understand the MFT scope of practice, professional organizations, licensure, and certification.
- Define ethics issues related to the profession of marriage and family therapy and the practice of individual, couple, and family therapy, including responsibility to clients, students and supervisees, research participants and the profession, define issues of confidentiality, professional competence and integrity, and the appropriateness of advertising and financial arrangements.
- Identify the legal responsibilities and liabilities of clinical practice and research, family law, record keeping, reimbursement, the business aspects of practice, and familiarity with regional and federal laws as they relate to the practice of individual, couple, and family therapy.
- Utilize research in couple and family therapy, focusing on methodology, data analysis, and the evaluation of both quantitative and qualitative research.
- Complete a substantive clinical experience in which students integrate and apply theoretical and practical knowledge from all didactic coursework in the treatment of individual, couple, and family problems.
