Clinical-Counseling Psychology Marriage and Family Therapy - La Salle University

Clinical-Counseling Psychology Marriage and Family Therapy from La Salle University is a Campus Master Counseling degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. What is Marriage and Family Therapy? 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. Who are Marriage and Family Therapists? Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) are mental health professionals trained in psychotherapy, family systems, and relationship issues. They are licensed to treat mental and emotional disorders within the context of individuals, couples, marriage and family systems. 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: Communication between family members, intimate partners, friends, coworkers or others. Parental concerns such as learning effective approaches to discipline and how to effectively deal with children and/or adolescent's behavior and emotional difficulties. Marital or couple discord Sexual difficulties and concerns Feelings of depression, anxiety or loneliness Unmanageable anger, hostility or violence 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? 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. View more details on La Salle University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Counseling courses.