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Intentionality in Academic Telesupervision: A Phenomenological Study of Faculty Telesupervisors’ Experiences
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a widespread shift to telehealth, there is an increased need to understand how we can best provide...
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Creating a Spiritually Integrated Course in an MFT Program
This chapter explores the training in pastoral counseling at seminaries that preceded interest in spirituality in systemic family therapy programs. A...
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Closing the Loop: Addressing Diversity in a COAMFTE-Accredited MFT Education Program
Diversity and inclusion have become key phrases within Marriage and Family Therapy education programs, particularly those accredited by the...
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“We Need to State it Overtly”: MFT’s Rationales for Labeling SOCE and GICE as Unethical in the Code of Ethic
This study sought to explore the beliefs of marriage and family therapists (MFTs) about why sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE; i.e., conversion...
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Future Directions
This chapter reviews the current practice of spirituality in MFT, the need to expand the exploration and application of spirituality in training...
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Learning to Embody a Social Justice Perspective in Couple and Family Therapy: A Grounded Theory Analysis of MFTs in Training
This action research study explores how four MFT students shifted from a cognitive understanding of equity and power to an intrinsic and automatic...
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Marriage and Family Therapy Education and Training: The Development of a Competency-Based Model
The turn of the century saw a shift from input-based to outcome-based education in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) training. An attempt was also...
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Not professional enough to be a therapist: international therapists’ experience of language discrimination
International therapists’ languages have been viewed as a barrier in conducting therapy. Our study utilized language subordination process as a...
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Spirituality in Individual, Tandem, and Group Supervision
This chapter cites spirituality in MFT literature as a critical dimension for the training of systemic family therapists. Research studies indicate...
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Implications of Spirituality for Faith-Based and Secular Learning Environments
This chapter explores how creative integration of spirituality in both faith-based and secular learning environments and settings such as community...
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Preliminary Research in the Integration of Spirituality and Systemic Family Therapy
This chapter describes the development of a pilot project on spirituality in MFT live supervision. A preliminary research study consisting of...
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Expanding Spirituality to Community-Based Service Contexts
This chapter focuses on spirituality as an avenue for therapists to engage a deeply centered connection with social justice. Social justice here is...
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Being a Program Director in a Mental Health Training Program - A Candid Reflection
Despite the important impact that program directors can have upon a mental health training program, there is surprisingly little literature on...
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Spirituality in Contemporary Systemic Practice
This chapter shares research that indicates that students, supervisors, and faculty are interested in spirituality in systemic practice. Yet no book...
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Spirituality in a Systemic Family Therapy Curriculum
This chapter provides an overview of an academic and clinical curriculum that utilizes supervision groups, spirituality courses, integrative courses,...
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The Way In: Most Effective Ways to Draw Potential Applicants to MFT Master’s Programs
Successful student recruitment is key to the flourishing of the field of marriage and family therapy (MFT). In this mixed methods study, guided by...
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Exploring Gender Wage Disparity in MFT Academic Programs
This study tested whether there was a significant salary difference between women and men working as faculty in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT)...
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Provider, Heal Thy System: An Examination of Institutionally Racist Healthcare Regulatory Practices and Structures
U.S. history is fraught with examples of systemic racism—at all ecological levels and within all geopolitical contexts. Whether scholars historically...
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Behavioral Indicators of the Therapeutic Alliance in Relation to Discontinuation in Couple Therapy
Client discontinuation is prevalent in psychotherapy with up to half discontinuing therapy before meeting the goals of therapy (Thalmayer, 2018)....
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Looking at Spirituality, Supervision, and Training
This chapter examines the author’s background through the lens of self, systems, and spirit in describing the book’s foundations. Through this...