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Clinical-Counseling Psychology - Marriage and Family Therapy Concentration 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 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 two to three years. 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 clinical and/or family psychology. It prepares students for licensure as Marriage and Family Therapists in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and most other states.
The MFT program progresses from a knowledge base of core courses
in psychology and systems theory, 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, 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 imbedded. Marriage and Family Therapy is a growing discipline whose practitioners
come from many disciplines including Psychology, Medicine, Social
Work, Pastoral Counseling and Nursing. And while each contributes
a unique perspective to the field, each shares in the larger, organizing
system perspective. 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: an on-campus clinical center - The Community Center of Counseling and Psychological Services.- in which some students serve their internships;a state of the art library - The Connelly Library - with extensive holdings in psychology; a well developed assessment laboratory with a full range of psychological testing materials. The thoroughness of its training is widely recognized in the Philadelphia area and sets its graduates apart.
Location
To be eligible, students must present:
PSY680/81/82* Internship * The Professional Seminar is taken in conjunction with the practicum
internship for a total of 9 credits 
John J. Rooney, Ph.D.Director Graduate Clinical Counseling Psychology 1900 West Olney Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19141 USA Phone (215) 951-1767 Fax (215) 951-5140 e-mail: psyma@lasalle.edu |
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