MA in Marriage & Family Therapy

Program Goal 1: Students will develop competent professional skills as beginning marriage and family therapists.

• SLO 1: Students will demonstrate comprehension and application of the relational/systemic marriage and family therapeutic models.
• SLO 2: Students will be able to articulate what marriage and Family theory(ies) inform their clinical work and its application to multicultural contexts.
• SLO 3: Students will demonstrate knowledge and competency in assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and therapeutic interventions with individuals, couples and families seeking treatment, from a relational/systemic framework that is multi-culturally informed.
• SLO 4: Students will demonstrate knowledge and basic application of research to marriage and family therapy.
• SLO 5: Graduates will perform successfully on the AMFTRB national licensing exam.
• SLO 6: Students will demonstrate knowledge and competency of MFT ethical, legal, and professional issues.

Program Goal 2: Deepen student self-awareness, understanding and growth personally, relationally, and spiritually.

• SLO 7: Students will demonstrate awreness of and address “self of the therapist” issues that impact the capacity for practice/service and ministry.

Program Goal 3: Engage students with issues of diversity and multi-culturalism

• SLO 8: Students will demonstrate awareness and comprehensions of and sensitivity to issues of diversity and multiculturalism in the therapeutic process.

Program Goal 4: Involve students in Christian faith, Biblical principles and spiritual formation.

• SLO 9: Students will demonstrate comprehension and the ability to integrate Christian faith and Biblical principles with marriage and family theory and praxis.
• SLO 10: Students will demonstrate knowledge and comprehension of Biblical principles and spiritual formation.

Where Relational Formation Flows
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