MFT 755R

Accreditation Wording

This course provides the opportunity for practice of marital and family therapy in the Brigham Young University Comprehensive Clinic under faculty supervision. Practicum is designed to assist you in becoming a competent Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) by helping you translate and apply what you have learned in didactic courses to actual clinical cases. To that end, practicum will emphasize the development of skills associated with the following BYU MFT Master's Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs): #1 (academically and clinically prepared for licensure in Utah), #3 (competent in clinical practice), #4 (understand and demonstrate ethical behavior) and #10 (understand diversity in a clinical setting). These address the COAMFTE Developmental Competency components of Practice of Therapy, Human Diversity and Social Structures, and Professional Ethics, Law and Identity. We will work toward those SLOs by targeting the following specific course objectives informed by the BYU Mission & Aims, where the expectation is to provide an education that is Spiritually Strengthening, Intellectually Enlarging, Character Building, and Leads Lifelong Learning and Service.

Support clients without interfering with own growth

Improve the ability to "bear one another's burdens. . . mourn with those that mourn. . . and comfort those that stand in need of comfort" (Mosiah 18: 8-9), without sacrificing own wellbeing. Indeed, we should follow the Savior's example of social, physical, and spiritual self-care. Accompanying BYU Aims: Spiritually Strengthening, Character Building

Help clients access the power of the Atonement

Help clients access the power of the Atonement through systemic theoretical and empirically-informed invitations (i.e., intervention) designed to promote change. Accompanying BYU Aims: Intellectually Enlarging, Spiritually Strengthening.

Personal improvement in skills and application of theory

Develop a plan for personal improvement in skills and application of didactic material. Accompanying BYU Aims: Intellectually Enlarging, Character Building.

Intervene with competence in diverse groups

Intervene with diverse populations according to "the [great] worth of souls" (D&C 18:10) in culturally-informed, sensitive, and relevant ways. Accompanying BYU Aim: Intellectually Enlarging, Character Building

Develop self as an ethical practitioner

Develop self as an ethical practitioner through consistent self-improvement efforts and implementation of ethical best practices. Accompanying BYU Aim: Character Building, Intellectually Enlarging