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
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
CE Approvals
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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.
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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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