Family Therapy Certificate Program

What is Family Therapy?

Family therapy refers to the protective, preventive, developmental, and guidance counseling service offered to increase families' problem-solving capacities and reduce relationship and communication issues experienced within families. Family therapy also aims to improve coping skills for challenging life events, strengthen relationships with the social environment, and regulate parenting skills and sibling relationships.

Purpose of the Family Therapy Certificate Program:

The Family Therapy Certificate Program aims to train family therapy professionals who are able to identify and develop methods to solve interpersonal problems within the family, as well as personal or interpersonal problems experienced by children or the family during marriage, separation, or divorce. The program is intended to cultivate family therapists who provide necessary professional support for family members to help them cope with major life events affecting the entire family, such as death, chronic illness, or a family member leaving home. Graduates of the program are vested with the necessary skills to take and implement measures to repair disrupted family systems, and offer intervention techniques and strategies tailored to the specific needs of individuals, couples, or families.

Goals of the Family Therapy Certificate Program:

To possess theoretical knowledge and practical skills in family therapy, To acquire descriptive, explanatory, and intervention skills regarding individual and family psychology and functioning based on systemic family therapy theory and research. To gain a deep understanding of the life cycle stages of family systems, to adopt a systemic approach to understand external systems affecting individuals and families, as well as their interactions with each other and dynamics among them, and to implement these dynamics in the therapy environment.

Who may apply?

Graduates of four-year undergraduate programs in the fields of social service, psychology, sociology, psychological counseling and guidance, medicine, nursing, and child development are eligible to obtain a family therapy certificate.

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