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The English subject test is the standard by which we measure English language proficiency on the ACT. A minimum score of 20 will satisfy the proficiency requirement.
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Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) are professional mental health providers who serve a critical role in helping individuals, couples, and families heal from psychological and relationship wounds as well as solve psychological and relationship problems. In their clinical work, MFTs enter into individual and relational suffering of loss, grief, trauma, difficult transitions, and conflict as a presence that can catalyze healing.
The Lipscomb Marriage and Family Therapy masters program is the only COAMFTE accredited (the gold standard in the field) program in Middle Tennessee. Students in the Lipscomb MFT program go through rigorous and comprehensive training and become highly trained, caring, and compassionate therapists who can effectively treat the challenges faced by individuals, couples, and families. Our cohort model provides students the unique opportunity to learn systems theory while forming a social system within their cohort.
Your rigorous training will prepare you to serve individuals overcoming their mental health challenges, help couples restore a thriving relationship, and lead families to create healthy and effective family processes. And once you finish here, you’ll be able to continue your clinical work while pursuing the Marriage and Family Therapy license.
Whether you are straight out of undergraduate work, are looking for a meaningful career change, or would like to expand your existing skill set in helping others, a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy can situate you to help and heal in powerful ways.
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Courses in Sequence:
Fall I
PSFT 5903: Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy Skills
PSFT 5103: Introduction to Systems and Family Theory
PSFT 6733: Non-traditional Families
Spring I
PSFT 5203: Family Therapy 1
PSFT 5403: Ethics and Clinical Practice
PSFT 6833: Practicum
Summer I
PSFT 6A23: Introduction to Play Therapy
PSFT 5603: Research Methods and Statistics
PSFT 6603: Diagnosis and Assessment
PSFT 6843: Supervised Clinical Practice I
Fall II
PSFT 6713: Family Therapy II
PSFT 6763: Intimacy: Sexuality, Couple and Sex Therapy
PSFT 6853: Supervised Clinical Practice II
Spring II
PSFT 6823: Professional Marriage and Family Therapy: Evidence Based Mental Health Care
PSFT 6053: Cultural Diversity in MFT
PSFT 6863: Supervised Clinical Practice III
Summer II
PSFT 6613: Family Life Cycle: Theory and practice
PSFT 6353: Treating Trauma and Addiction in Families
PSFT 6873: Supervised Clinical Practice IV
Specialization
There is one area of specializations in the MMFT program.
Play Therapy: This concentration is a 9 credit hour concentration where two Play Therapy courses and one Play Therapy Supervised Clinical Practice (SCP) replace two regular MFT courses and integrate Play Therapy into one SCP. The MMFT with a Play Therapy Concentration is 63 credit hours.
Special Courses
PSFT 6800: Clinical Practice Extension
PSFT 688V: Independent Study in MFT
PSFT 6XN3: Special Topics in MFT
Marriage and Family Therapists
Marriage and family therapists help people manage and overcome problems with family and other relationships.
Play Therapist
After becoming a licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor or Marriage and Family Therapist, you can become a registered play therapist. A Registered Play Therapist will use play therapy to help clients (regardless of age) find healing and achieve the growth they desire.
