Navigate this Section. Learn how to apply to the Marriage and Family Therapy M. It can take up to a week to be assigned a red ID after submission of this application. If you have not yet been assigned your red ID and need to submit your Program application please enter as your red ID number so that you will be able to submit your application by the deadline.
Information sessions will be held twice in Fall to provide prospective students more information about the admissions process, the program, and its faculty. Some faculty and current students from each cohort will be in attendance. Prospective students are encouraged to read through the MFT program website prior to attending an information session.
Due to our large applicant pool, we will not schedule individual consultations with prospective students. Instead, we will encourage interested candidates to join our information sessions. Please gather the required items below and have them ready to upload to the Program application:. The MFT Admissions Committee is interested in getting to know you as a developing person and professional.
Please supply the Committee with a double-spaced 2- to 3-page reflective essay on the following areas:. Contact 3 individuals who you have interacted with both personally and professionally and would be able to write a letter of recommendation for you. Experienced Faculty Faculty of the MFT program are actively involved in class with students, clinical trainings, and often are practicing in the profession with diverse foci and specialties.
Clinical Experience Gain extensive clinical experience through community engagement, practicums, and traineeship placements. Human and Family Development: Understand principles of human and family development, human sexuality, gender development, trauma, psychopathology, psychopharmacology, trauma, recovery-oriented care, and their implications for treatment. Cultural and Contextual Awareness: Conduct assessment and therapy with sensitivity to contextual and systemic dynamics e.
Diagnosis: Diagnose and assess client behavioral and relational health concerns systemically and contextually utilizing current models for assessment and diagnosis. Treatment Planning: Develop measurable outcomes, treatment goals, treatment plans, appropriate referrals, and aftercare plans utilizing a systemic perspective.
Treatment, Intervention, and Practice: Deliver systemic interventions that are consistent with model of therapy, evidence base, cultural and contextual dynamics, practice setting, and goals of the treatment plan. Safety Planning: Screen and develop adequate safety plans for substance abuse, maltreatment of children and vulnerable adults, domestic violence, physical violence, suicide potential, and danger to self and others.
Collaboration: Work collaboratively with stakeholders, including family members, other significant persons, and professionals that empower clients to navigate complex systems of care. Self-of-Therapist: Monitor personal reactions to clients and treatment process e.
Research: Use current MFT and behavioral health research to inform clinical practice. News More News. To help protect and promote the wellness and needs of the Black community, we in the MFT program at SDSU are committed to taking the following actionable steps: Acknowledge that racism is embedded into our organizational structures and acknowledge that we, as a program, need to continuously educate ourselves to be agents of positive and impactful transformation for our students, alumni, and community of African descent.
Encourage our students, faculty, and staff to disrupt and dismantle racism, systemic oppression, white supremacy, and white nationalism. Educate and train students using decolonial pedagogies Educate and prepare students to adopt culturally responsive clinical ideologies and practices e. Promote the accomplishments and excellence of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni of African descent.
Continue to ensure that our education and training opportunities are accessible to all of our students of African descent, providing more support and working to reduce barriers. Call upon our faculty, students, alumni, and affiliated community members who hold unearned power and privilege to take up the responsibility to fight against systemic racism and oppression in their clinical work with couples, families, and individuals. Land Acknowledgement. For millennia, the Kumeyaay people have been a part of this land.
This land has nourished, healed, protected, and embraced them for many generations in a relationship of balance and harmony. As members of the San Diego State community, we acknowledge this legacy. We promote this balance and harmony. We find inspiration from this land, the land of the Kumeyaay.
Statement of Diversity. Title IX. San Diego State University does not discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, or sexual orientation in its education programs or activities. Title IX of the Education Amendments of , and certain other federal and state laws, prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, or sexual orientation in employment, as well as all education programs and activities operated by the University both on and off campus , and protect all people regardless of their gender or gender identity from sex discrimination, which includes sexual harassment and sexual violence.
The school features an M. The program is low-residency and typically involves 33 months, or three years, of full-time enrollment. Courses include topics in psychopathology, social and cultural diversity, human sexuality and sex therapy, and special issues in family therapy such as domestic violence.
Students must come to campus to complete four- to five-day residencies, which combine student presentations, peer discussions, advising sessions, guest lectures, workshops, and seminars.
Capella University is an online, for-profit university based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Students can expect a combination of face-to-face experiences and online coursework that prepares them for licensure in the field.
Students are also required to complete on-site, intensive residencies with faculty and other students from the program. Located in Longview, Texas, LeTourneau University is an interdenominational Christian university that offers programs in business, education, aeronautical science, and engineering to more than 3, students.
The credit-hour M. Courses cover areas such as lifespan human development, research methods, counseling skills and techniques, integrative theology for counselors, trauma and theodicy, family assessment, and couples therapy. In addition to the clinical theology coursework, there is a Christian foundation for each of the courses throughout the program. The online MA in Clinical Psychology requires credit hours of coursework.
Points: 11 Program Website. Located in Malibu, California, Pepperdine University is a private, non-profit institution that is affiliated with the Churches of Christ.
The school offers an M. The to unit program is organized into eight to 12 sessions, including four clinical rotations, and the curriculum provides a practice-based course of study. Students are required to delve into areas such as multicultural counseling, interpersonal skills and group therapy, and theories of counseling and psychology. The program also meets the requirement for licensure as a licensed professional clinical counselor or a licensed marriage and family therapist in California.
Students must complete 65 credits of blended residential and online courses in order to prepare for the licensure exam for marriage and family therapy in California. Students benefit from diverse practicum opportunities, including options for a Hispanic summer program and summer study in Israel. In addition to coursework in ministry and marriage and family therapy, students also cover topics such as aging and grief counseling.
Located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, John Brown University is a private liberal arts college that enrolls 2, students each year at its main campus as well as at education centers in Fort Smith, Little Rock, and Rogers as well as online.
The M. The courses are offered in a hybrid format, and all are taught from a Christian worldview by faculty committed to both the spiritual and academic growth of their students. The online MS in Family Life requires 36 credit hours of coursework. Founded in , Concordia University-Wisconsin is affiliated with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and includes professional church work as part of its curriculum, offering a Christian education with a holistic approach.
Students may earn an online M. Upon completion of the program, students are prepared to earn a certified family life educator designation and are ready to enter the field as family social workers, family therapists, and life scientists. The online Master of Marriage and Family Therapy offers three tracks of specialization. Points: 13 Program Website. The school offers a credit-hour Master of Family Therapy degree that prepares students for Christian leadership and service in a number of faith-based and secular settings.
Courses cover theological perspectives on human behavior, family therapy across the life cycle, couples therapy, and family therapy. Points: 14 Program Website. Established in , the University of Massachusetts-Boston offers an online M. Students are required to complete 60 credits of coursework, including a capstone project, in preparation for licensure as a family therapist in Massachusetts.
Students must also complete to 1, hours of an internship at an approved site near their home. Most coursework is available online, but students are required to participate in an intensive two-week summer session at UMass. Graduates are prepared to strengthen healthy families by viewing them as entities within larger social systems, promoting an integrative, inclusive, and collaborative systems approach. Areas of study include group counseling, multicultural issues, lifespan development, career counseling across the lifespan, assessment techniques, faith-based counseling, and counseling theories.
The program is organized into eight-week courses as well as one-week intensive courses in January and July. After graduation, students are prepared to take the licensed marriage and family therapist exam in Pennsylvania. Lee University is a Christian institution that was founded in in Cleveland, Tennessee and sponsored by the Church of God.
Students considering pursuing administrative roles in family church ministry or family services may consider the M. This two-year program consists of 36 credits, which includes 15 elective credits, 21 core credits, and either a thesis for students considering doctoral work or a comprehensive final exam.
Core coursework focuses on systems theory, human sexuality, and human growth and development. The program does not lead to licensure as a marriage and family therapist.
The online MA in Counseling requires 60 credit hours of coursework. Points: 16 Program Website. The largest private university in the state, Indiana Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts school located in Marion, Indiana that enrolls 16, students in undergraduate and graduate degree programs each year. The online credit-hour M. The online MS in Counseling prepares students to pursue licensure in California. Coursework includes topics such as substance abuse and addictions treatment, a seminar in counseling theory and practice, couples and sex therapy, and community mental health.
Students complete 12 units of counseling core courses, 24 units in the marriage and family specialization, 12 units of clinical assessment and research courses, and 13 units in fieldwork and practicum courses.
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