Marriage and Family Therapy: Applications in Clinical Practice

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Marriage and Family Therapy: Applications in Clinical Practice

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Description

This program is for therapists who work with clients struggling with marriage and family issues. Topics include practice issues, approaches to family therapy, including cognitive behavioral models, strategic family therapy, and solution-focused brief therapy, supervision, and ethical issues in marriage and family therapy. Each chapter includes a case study:

  • The Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Models of Family Therapy
  • Strategic Family Therapy
  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families
  • Supervision in Marriage and Family Therapy
  • Ethical Issues in Marriage and Family Therapy

The content of this continuing education program is adapted from Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice Oriented Approach. Used by permission of Springer Publishing Company, LLC.

Format: Asynchronous, reading-based distance learning. Non-interactive.

Note: This course is presented in a PDF format only.

This CE program is designated as beginning to intermediate.

NAADAC Online CE Completion limits: There is a limit of 8 hours (8 CE) of credit for online courses within a 24-hour period.

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Course Details

Credits
8
Course Format
Reading-based, asynchronous, distance-learning, non-interactive.
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Nurses
CE Credit Type / Category
Clinical
Conflict of Interest
None reported

Learning Objectives

  • Use genograms to map family relationships and emotional issues
  • Describe how communication patterns in families develop and change
  • Explain the therapist's role in DBT, behavioral marital/couples therapy, and functional family therapy
  • Illustrate at least two techniques that help clients take action for change
  • Use scaling questions to facilitate change
  • Identify strategies to be used in successful supervision
  • Discuss common ethical problems in marriage and family therapy

CE Approvals

American Psychological Association (APA)

At Health, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. At Health, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)

At Health, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6949. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. At Health, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

NAADAC – The Association for Addiction Professionals

Athealth.com is approved as a continuing education provider by the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, the Association for Addiction Professionals. #148460.

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

At Health, LLC, Provider #1707, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 5/3/2023–5/3/2026.

State-Specific Approvals

It is At Health’s understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for social work in Arkansas. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.

It is At Health’s understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for social workers, professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, master’s level psychologists, licensed clinical psychotherapists, and alcohol and other drug abuse counselors in Kansas. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.

It is At Health’s understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for mental health practice and for social work in Nebraska. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.

It is At Health’s understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for psychologists, pastoral psychotherapists, clinical social workers, clinical mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and alcohol and drug abuse counselors in New Hampshire. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.

It is At Health’s understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for social workers, professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists in Tennessee. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.

Other jurisdictions may accept trainings offered by At Health, LLC for your continuing education requirements. Restrictions may apply. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.

Page last modified or reviewed by athealth.com on Apr 19, 2026.

Syllabus 1 lesson

  1. 🖹 [B3103-B04] Marriage and Family Therapy

Author Bio

Editor

Linda Metcalf, PhD, LPC, LMFT, is Associate Professor, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas, where she is also Director of the School Counseling program, teacher of family therapy courses, and practicum student supervisor. She is also a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist in Texas, where she has worked with adolescents and families for the past nineteen years in a variety of settings. Dr. Metcalf is the author of nine books.

Contributors

Linda Metcalf, PhD, LPC, LMFT
Director of the School Counseling Program
Professor, Texas Wesleyan University
Department of Education
Fort Worth, Texas

Fallon Cluxton-Keller, MA, PhD, LMFT
Postdoctoral Fellow
Baltimore, Maryland

Tiffany Nicole Smith, MS, LPC, LMFT, NCC
Private Practice, Tiffany Smith Counseling, Inc.
Flower Mound, Texas

Edita Ruzgyte, PhD, LPC
Assistant Professor, Texas Wesleyan University
Department of Education
Fort Worth, Texas

Donald Spinks, PhD, LPC
Assistant Professor, Texas Wesleyan University
Fort Worth, Texas
(deceased)

Kelly Backhaus, PhD, LMFT, CPC
Adjunct Professor, Western Wyoming Community College
Rock Springs, Wyoming

Sean B. Stokes, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT-S
Assistant Professor, Texas Wesleyan University
Fort Worth, Texas

Billee K.C. Molarte, MS, LPC
Texas Woman's University
Denton, Texas

Beena Benny, LPC, LMFT
Elementary School Mental Health Professional
Fort Worth, Texas

Instructors

Linda Metcalf, PhD, LPC, LMFT

Fallon Cluxton-Keller, MA, PhD, LMFT

Tiffany Nicole Smith, MS, LPC, LMFT, NCC

Edita Ruzgyte, PhD, LPC

Donald Spinks, PhD, LPC

Kelly Backhaus, PhD, LMFT, CPC

Sean B. Stokes, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT-S

Billee K.C. Molarte, MS, LPC

Beena Benny, LPC, LMFT

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