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.

Content Category: Clinical

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

This CE program is designated as beginning to intermediate.

Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, case managers, nurses

There are no known conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose

Syllabus

  • Print Version / Test Preview
  • Marriage and Family Therapy
  • CE Test
  • Evaluation

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

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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.”

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Learning Objectives

Upon completing this program, participants should be able to

  • 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

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