MFT Professional Practice and Applications to Contemporary Challenges

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This course focuses on contemporary moral, ethical, social, legal, and clinical challenges that Marriage and Family Therapists may encounter with clients in a modern world. Lenses utilized to examine these contemporary issues include systemic/relational perspective, inclusivity and diversity, and social location of the therapist. Although topics are presented and reviewed in separate weekly meetings, the intersectionality of all contemporary challenges will be critically analyzed. Course topics should be regularly examined and updated as challenges in society change.