Master of Arts with a major in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy
About The Program: Master of Arts with a major in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy
The Master's degree in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy focuses on developing clinicians with the highest quality of professional competence.
If you're searching for marriage and family therapy graduate programs in Indiana, choose our accredited 60 credit hour graduate program is interpersonal in focus and holistic in approach, emphasizing family systems within each student's Christian worldview context. Evidence-based approaches in the field are given high priority in the curriculum. Students learn to engage with classic systemic models as well as more contemporary and postmodern approaches, benefit from our strongly interpersonal structure, and enjoy close interaction with faculty members. Those within the Master of Arts with a major in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy become an intimate community, a source of shared faith, knowledge, and friendship.
Through our state-of-the-art therapy and research center, MFC/T students are exposed to regular video recording and monitoring of their own and classmates' therapy sessions, supervision with video recordings, live supervision, and numerous research opportunities. Students are also exposed to a variety of learning environments through the classroom, practicum experience, and internship placements.
We anticipate that our graduates will become leaders and public servants who thoughtfully address contemporary challenges such as troubled marriages, child concerns, single parenting, divorce, reconstituted families, and so forth with cultural competence and professional integrity. Students enrolled in marriage and family therapy programs are trained to work with individual clients in a manner that is consistent with their own budding philosophy of marriage and family therapy. Emphasis is placed on each student grappling with his or her own understanding of why therapy is successful, i.e., what is one's own theory of change within the therapeutic context?
Effective July 1, 2023. Master of Arts with a major in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy students at Indiana Wesleyan University must complete a minimum of 300 direct clinical hours total. One hundred of these hours must be relational (e.g. couples, family) under the supervision of AAMFT approved supervisors, supervisor candidates or supervisor equivalent. The program curriculum is designed to meet the academic requirements for licensure as a marriage and family therapist in the state of Indiana. Individuals seeking licensure outside of the state of Indiana are encouraged to speak directly with an MFC/T faculty who can help them navigate the process. Students from states requiring more than 300 direct clinical contact hours are encouraged to apply.
For more information on different states licensure requirements and contact information, please visit AAMFT.
Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy Graduate Achievement Data Disclosure Tables
Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy Composition: Faculty and Students
Program Mission Statement and Learning Outcomes
Mission
The MFC/T Program is committed to training entry level professionals whose clinical skills are informed by diverse theoretical traditions, ethical integrity and sensitivity to diverse populations of individuals, couples and families.
MFC/T Program Goals and Student Learning Outcomes
Program Goal: The program will prepare students to engage in the professional practice of individual, couple, and family therapy.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of theories and treatment of individuals, couples, and families from a systemic perspective.
- Students will demonstrate skills and practices of individual, couple, and family therapy.
Program Goal: The program will prepare students to deliver individual, couple, and family therapy to diverse populations.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Students will demonstrate skills and practices of individual, couple, and family therapy through a multicultural lens.
- Students will demonstrate ability to integrate faith with individual, couple, and family therapy in a clinically appropriate manner.
Program Goal: The program will prepare students to practice individual, couple, and family therapy with skill and professional integrity.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Students will demonstrate ability to apply relevant research and evaluation models in the practice of individual, couple, and family therapy.
- Students will practice individual, couple, and family therapy in an ethical manner with professional integrity.
Why wait?
If you're interested in going beyond your undergraduate degree and exploring Master of Arts with a major in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy, now is the time to learn more about Indiana Wesleyan University. IWU is a Christian university that offers adult education programs in family therapy and counseling. If you have a Bachelor's degree and are interested in seeking professional licensure and earning your Master of Arts with a major in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy, call us at 866-468-6498 for more information.