MFCC 6399 Marriage & Family Therapy Supervision

This course is designed to explore the major conceptual approaches, methods, and techniques; evaluation; and ethical and legal issues related to clinical supervision of marriage and family therapists. Definitions, theory-based approaches, supervision formats, and research are reviewed. This course is taught with both a didactic and experiential component. Throughout this course, students will focus on strategies for working with supervisees representing diverse backgrounds and developmental and learning styles. After a critical analysis of the purpose of supervision and theoretical frameworks and models of marriage and family supervision. Students will develop and apply their own theory of supervision in a supervised practice setting that includes each student supervising a group of marriage and family practicum students. Approval is needed prior to registering for this course.

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Distribution

Counseling (Graduate)