After completing the first academic year, CSUDH MFT students will gain a hands-on experience of the Marriage and Family Therapy principles, professional expectations, codes of conduct, communication, and legal & ethical protocols through clinical training. Clinical Training, referred to as practicum or fieldwork, marks an important milestone for students to obtain practical training in the clinical field and to develop foundational clinical skills. As students advance through fieldwork, the program’s priority is to enhance students’ ability to develop clinical skills and competencies required to work with diverse clients from all walks of life effectively. The program provides a three-semester practicum sequence that focuses on the development of the therapist and provides fundamental and comprehensive clinical training, where the applications of the theoretical knowledge and technical skills are developed and sharpened.
The MFT program offers its students a directory of approved sites in the community to support clinical training. Students enrolled in practicum are given excellent supervision in the program and at the community sites. Students must meet the minimum expectations throughout the process to move towards completion of the clinical training:
- Nine (9) of the 64-semester units are required in a clinical community agency that provides supervised fieldwork experience.
- Students must acquire at least 300 direct client contact hours, of which at least 100 must be with relational systems, such as couples and families.
- A minimum of 50 hours of supervision must be live observation, or the utilization of video or audio recorded sessions.
- Students must receive at least 100 hours of MFT relational/systemic supervision from a clinical supervisor while seeing clients.
- The clinical work must occur in at least three (3) semesters of practicum courses over twelve months of fieldwork.
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