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Showing 1 to 20 of 500 for “"Marriage and Family Therapy"”.
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Religious orientation in marriage and family therapy
… as the term is currently being used by Marriage and Family therapists familiar with religious families. 2. to identify and prioritize clinicians' perceptions regarding the effects of religious orientation on "Well Family" functioning, both positively and negatively. 3. to develop …
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The image of marriage and family therapy
… to explore the image that professions other than marriage and family therapy (MFT) have of MFT as being either a profession or a subspecialty within a larger profession. Lawyers, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers in three states (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania) …
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Developmental Pedagogy in Marriage and Family Therapy Education
… domains are opening up for practitioners of family therapy in the medical, organizational, and human relations fields. In this new environment, family therapy educators and supervisors are required to cross the epistemological spaces of scientist-practitioner, postmodernism, and critical …
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Ethics Education In Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Programs
… ethics instruction will provide the knowledge and awareness required to empower therapists to make ethical clinical decisions. This study examined the current status of ethics education in accredited and non accredited marriage and family therapy graduate programs in the United States and …
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The experiences of marriage and family therapy supervisors and supervisees
The purpose of this study was to explore and understand the nature of marriage and family therapy supervision from the perspectives of supervisors and supervisees. Two supervisors and four supervisees in an AAMFT-approved doctoral program participated in in-depth interviews focusing on their …
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Marriage and Family Therapy and the Law: Discovering Systemic Common Ground
<p>Many important decisions regarding couples and families are made by the legal system. However, this system’s adversarial nature often results in relational losses for clients, even when one “wins” a case. Some believe a solution may exist in legally-minded marriage and family therapists, who, as …
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Developing Dyadic Measurements in Marriage and Family Therapy: The Dyadic Supervision Evaluation
… study applies integrative developmental theory and a common factors approach in evaluating and describing how Marital and Family Therapy trainee’s progress in mastering the core competencies set forth by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) through …
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Career Practices and Training Perspectives of Marriage and Family Therapy Program Graduates
Using survey data gathered by both Internet and mailed questionnaires, 125 graduates of COAMFTE-accredited marriage and family therapy (MFT) programs imparted information about their perspectives on their MFT training, their current and desired career practices, and their advice to MFT trainees and …
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Bilateral Art: An Integration of Marriage and Family Therapy, Art Therapy, and Neuroscience
… intervention that engages both dominant and non-dominant hands in the creation of images in response to polarized beliefs, cognitions, or feelings. Advances in neuroscience that integrate attachment theory and experience with neuronal development argue for use of the intervention. …
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Marriage and Family Therapy STudents' Exeperience of Anxiety During the CLinical Training Process
In this study I explored marriage and family therapy student interns' experience of anxiety during the clinical training process. Participants discussed their anxiety levels during the beginning of their clinical work and 6-22 months into their clinical training process. Phenomenology guided the …
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Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Student Stress: A Survey of AAMFT Student Members
… The researcher developed a 31-item quantitative and qualitative questionnaire to identify factors that relate to stress experienced by MFT graduate students and coping resources and strategies that MFT graduate students use to handle their stress. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of the 500 student …
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Elements of Motivational Interviewing as Common Factors across Exemplary Marriage and Family Therapy Demonstrations
In both individual and relational psychotherapy contexts, it has been argued that the effectiveness of psychotherapy practice is associated with common factors cutting across the models including client factors, therapist factors, hope/expectancy of the clients, allegiance of the therapists, the …
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Culturally Appropriate Indian Applications of Marriage and Family Therapy Interventions Explored Through an HIV Example
… people in India who are living with HIV/AIDS and many more are indirectly affected by the epidemic (families, children). Since HIV/AIDS is a growing problem, further research for prevention and treatment is needed. Family therapists possess an important role in the AIDS crisis given that some …
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Black American Client Perceptions of the Treatment Process in a University Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic
Despite negative perceptions of therapy, Black Americans are seeking therapy. I interviewed 8 Black clients about their experience of MFT. I used the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI; Sellers, Rowley, Chavous, Shelton, & Smith, 1997) to assess their racial identity. Most …
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Getting Them In: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study with Implications towards Marketing Marriage and Family Therapy
… exploratory mixed methods study was to develop and test a theory of planned behavior questionnaire that includes both direct and belief-based measures for seeking professional help from a MFT for participants and their spouses during times of relationship distress. To complete this goal, three …
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