Describes current trends in training marriage and family counselors. Raises training issues related to individual counseling, working with systems beyond families, focusing on concrete outcomes, and programs giving adequate attention to the therapist as an individual. Discusses COAMFTE and CACREP accreditation standards. (CRR)

Describes marriage and family counselor training model utilizing family-of-origin work for personal growth. Reviews theoretical base, application to training, parallel process, and isomorphic process. Suggests that counseling and supervision are intense interpersonal experiences which are likely to reactivate learned patterns of behavior and…

Presents overview of select components most often found within family training programs: the study of systems theory, examination of family of origin, use of live supervision, and emphasis on ethical issues specific to working with couples and families. Discusses variety of challenges facing training programs, including constructivism, feminist…

Describes the reflecting team model as a group learning experience for counselor trainees. Approach permits trainees to give and receive immediate feedback on perceptions and learn about intervention strategies for working with couples. Discusses evaluation of the model utilizing The Family Therapist Trainee Rating Scale. (Author/CRR)

Questions adequacy with which insight-oriented marital therapy (IOMT) and behavioral marital therapy (BMT) were represented in Snyder, Wills, and Grady-Fletcher's (1991) comparative treatment study. Contends that BMT treatment manual fails to include recent innovations in behavioral technology and IOMT manual includes many skills integral to BMT.…

Provides an overview of marriage and family counseling, including the growth of interest in this specialty within the American Counseling Association (ACA). Discusses the evolution of marriage and family counseling within ACA, standards for training, credentialing, and unique ethical considerations when counseling couples and families. (Author)

Offers the hypothesis that increasing efforts to help families and marriages inadvertently contributes to their dysfunction. By examining the institutions of family and marriage in broader societal perspectives as well as the theories we use a more useful service to the health of these systems is rendered. (Author)

Recounts supervisees best and worst experiences with training and supervision while participating in marriage and family therapy education training programs. Positive behaviors perceived to be enacted by supervisors can be categorized by the following dimensions: creating an open supervisory environment, providing encouragement and communication,…

Within the past decade, the field of marriage and family therapy has mushroomed. As a new and emerging professional specialization, marriage and family therapy is subject to control struggles as well as the proliferation of training modalities. This monograph, written for counselor education faculty, students, and family therapists, provides…