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La Salle's Marriage and Family Therapy Program is granted COAMFTE Accreditation
The Marriage and Family Therapy Master’s program is very pleased to announce that it has achieved candidacy status with the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE). This accreditation is a measure of the program’s excellence. With it comes national recognition as one of the nation’s premium MFT training programs. AAMFT’s Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) is the nationally recognized accrediting agency that accredits Master's degree, doctoral degree, and post-graduate degree clinical training programs in marriage and family therapy throughout the United States and Canada. Who are Marriage and Family Therapists? What do Marriage and Family Therapists do? Marriage and Family Therapists evaluate and treat mental and emotional disorders and other health and behavioral problems, and address a wide array of relationship issues within the context of the individual and/or the family system. Some of the problems that Marriage and Family Therapist help people with are:
Marriage and Family Therapists are widely employed as clinicians
and consultants in mental health clinics, hospitals, schools, drug
and alcohol centers and a variety of other settings. Trained marriage
and family therapists, are also used to conduct or direct research. What is the Program? The Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) program at La Salle is one of four concentrations in the Clinical/Counseling Psychology Program. It is a 48 credit hour program which is normally completed in three years, however can be completed in two. It helps to prepare students for employment in professional setting with special training in marriage and family therapy. It has been designed to fulfill the basic educational requirements for clinical membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. It is excellent preparation for those students planning to pursue doctoral studies in marriage and family therapy. It prepares students for licensure as Marriage and Family Therapists in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and most other states. How does the Program progress? The MFT program progresses from a knowledge base of core courses
in systems theory and psychology, to a sequence of skills courses
in assessment and intervention, to actual clinical practice, completed
in a 12 month clinical placement in the final year. Marriage and Family Therapy is an approach to mental health care which seeks to help people within the context of their families and their relationships, using family systems theories and interventions. Its practitioners hold a common assumption that if the individual
is to change, the context must change. Therefore, the unit of treatment
is no longer the person, even if only a single person is interviewed.
It is the set of relationships in which the person is embedded. La Salle has been training counselors and therapists since 1979. Its faculty is highly qualified and posses a wide range of disciplinary expertise. Its resources are extensive, including: a state of the art library - The Connelly Library - with extensive holdings in psychology. The thoroughness of its training is widely recognized in the Philadelphia area and sets its graduates apart.
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To be eligible, students must present:
PSY/MFT 680/81/82* MFT Internship * The Professional Seminar is taken in conjunction with the practicum internship for a total of 9 credits  Donna A. Tonrey, Psy.D., LMFT
Director, Marriage and Family Therapy Program 215.997.0188 tonrey@lasalle.edu |
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