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Center for Spiritual and Personal FormationSt. Paul • San Diego • Seminary of the Eastunique challenges of maintaining appropriateboundaries within ministrysettings. Issues of professional developmentare discussed, and students areencouraged to develop strategies forcontinuing professional, personal, andspiritual growth. Recommended prerequisitein St. Paul: MF503. Prerequisitein San Diego: MF504. Four hours.MF559 (MF139) • Psychological Assessmentin MFT. This course willfamiliarize students with the psychometriccharacteristics and limitationsof both projective and standardizedpsychological, marital, and family assessmenttools. Students will learn howto administer and score various instruments,interpret assessment data, andwrite clinical reports that will assist indiagnosis and treatment of individuals,couples, and families in therapy. Thelegal and ethical issues involved in theuse of assessment measures, especiallyin diverse populations, will be discussed.Students are encouraged to usetheir own profiles to identify opportunitiesfor continuing spiritual, personal,and relational growth. Prerequisite:MF504. San Diego only. Four hours.MF561 (MF103) • Dynamics of FamilyInteraction: Sexuality, Spirituality,and Socialization. This courseanalyzes dynamic processes of familyand couple relationships such as loveand intimacy; communication; shame;power; family stress; and coping. Familychanges such as divorce, remarriage,and grief are also addressed. Specialattention is given to the ways couplesand families interact around issues ofsexuality and spirituality. Students areencouraged to develop an awarenessof the influences of these family dynamicsin their own families of origin.Recommended prerequisites: MF501 orMF500 and MF551. Four hours.MF562/564 (MF123/MF127) • Individualand Family Psychopathology.This course helps students understandand identify individual and relationalproblems and gain awareness of abnormaland/or unhealthy developmentof individuals and relationships. Thecourse includes introduction to andcritique of DSM-IV diagnostic categories.Prerequisite in St. Paul: MF502.Prerequisites in San Diego: MF504 andMF506. Four hours.MF563 (MF133) • Advanced ClinicalIssues. This course focuses on developingtherapeutic and pastoral carestrategies based on research, theory, andtheological reflection to address issuessuch as separation and divorce, singleparentand remarried families, infertility,adultery, sexual dysfunction, abuseand violence in the family, and addictiveand compulsive behaviors. Prerequisites:MF503 and MF561. Four hours.MF565 (MF104) • Dynamics of FamilyProcess. The dynamic processes offamily and couple relationships such associalization, communication, shame,power, stress, and coping will be examined.Special attention will be given tospirituality and how families transitionthrough divorce, remarriage, and grief.Students will be given opportunities toexplore these dynamics in their ownfamilies of origin. Prerequisite: MF504.San Diego only. Two hours.MF606 (MF126) • Psychopharmacologyand Marital and Family Therapy.Students will gain a historical perspectiveof the use of medication in treatingmental disorders within the context ofsocial, cultural, gender, and religiousissues. The central focus will be on themajor classifications of psychotropicdrugs, specifying their psychiatricuses, benefits, side effects, toxicities,combinations, and biochemical actions.This course will also explorehow MFTs can best work with medicalpractitioners in providing more comprehensiveclient care. Prerequisites:MF504, MF506, and MF564. San Diegoonly. Three hours.MF608 (MF128) • Sexuality and Intimacyin Couples and Families. Thiscourse analyzes the dynamic processesof love, intimacy, and sexuality incouple and family relationships fromspiritual and systems perspectives.Special focus is given to human sexualityincluding strategies for enhancingthe sexual experience, as well as diagnosingand treating sexual dysfunctionswithin the context of marital andfamily therapy. This course satisfiesthe California BBS requirement of aminimum of 10 contact hours of coursework in human sexuality. Prerequisite:MF504. San Diego only. Two hours.MF653 (MF136) • Diagnosis andTreatment Planning in Marriage andFamily Therapy. This course introducesthe student to the fundamental skillsnecessary for mental health diagnosticassessment and treatment planning.Students will learn and practice theskills essential to the first three sessionsof family treatment. Both medicalmodel and systems integration will beaddressed so that students may becomebilingual in their ability to negotiateprofessional relationships with insurancecompanies, Rule 29 agencies, andother professionals who use a medicalmodel as their primary approachto mental health, while retaining aninherently systemic approach to treatment.Prerequisites: MF503. Recommendedprerequisite: MF553. St. Paulonly. Three hours.MF654 (MF135) • Research Designand Evaluation in Marriage andFamily Therapy.MF655 (MF145) • Research Designand Evaluation in Marital andFamily Therapy.Students explore the interpretationand design of qualitative and quantitativeresearch in family issues and inprocesses and outcomes of marriageand family therapy. Principles of understandingand critiquing publishedresearch are examined with the goalof enabling students to use currentliterature to ground their therapeuticand pastoral responses to family concerns.Prerequisites in St. Paul: MF501and MF503. Prerequisite in San Diego:MF504. Four hours.Supervised Clinical Experience I-IV.St. Paul: MF701, 702, 703, 704 (MF151,152, 153, 154) These four units, ofwhich students are required to takethree, constitute a nine-month practicumincluding 300 hours of clinicalcontact and 75 hours of supervision by alicensed marriage and family therapistand/or an AAMFT-approved supervisor.The practicum must conform tothe guidelines of the Commission onAccreditation of Marriage and Fam-Course descriptions apply toall Bethel locations unlessotherwise noted.126