Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Marriage and Family Therapy Dual Licensure
NU’s Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Marriage and Family Sciences specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy Dual Licensure prepares you with skills beyond the bachelor’s degree level to help you stand out in the field helping professions, and complete the additional course work needed to add the Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) license to your Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist certificate credential. This certificate requires only 12 credits to complete, many of which correspond with courses in NU’s COAMFTE-accredited Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy degree program. If you decide to prep for MFT licensure at NU, these courses may be applied for transfer credit.
Throughout this certificate program, you’ll explore topics such as group therapy, career counseling, psychological tests and measurements, and theories of psychotherapy and counseling.
Course Name
PSY-6109 – Career and Lifestyle Development
This course focuses on the theory and skills needed to provide basic career and lifestyle counseling. During this course, students will explore the importance of careers and lifestyle from a developmental point of view. Research and measurement, which are key to career counseling, will also be evaluated, as well as various career counseling strategies and ethics required in this field. The students will have the opportunity, using scenarios and pilot proposals to exercise skills in career counseling.
PSY-8144 – Group Therapy
Group work, including group counseling, group therapy, and other type of change-oriented groups, involves special dynamics and processes and requires specific leader behaviors and characteristics. In this course, the student will examine, apply, and analyze these factors of group work. Videotapes of group therapy sessions conducted by expert and beginning therapists will form a basis for learning.
PSY-6121 – Theories of Psychotherapy and Counseling
This course examines major research in the social psychology of groups. Topics such as group dynamics, formation, structure, performance, leadership, conflict, intergroup relations, and change, will be addressed and analyzed. Please note that this is not a clinical course, and does not address the therapeutic functioning and conduct of groups.
PSY-6114 – Psychological Tests and Measurements *
This course provides students with a fundamental background in assessment and measurement as well as the ability to evaluate the psychometric strengths and weaknesses of individual psychological tests and measurements, using both conceptual and applied. This course focuses on psychometric principles (e.g. validity and reliability), test and items analysis, test construction, and applications of psychological testing in a wide variety of settings.
Degree and Course Requirements
Program Learning Outcomes
Learn the theory and skills needed to provide basic career and lifestyle counseling
Explore the importance of careers and lifestyle from a developmental point of view
Exercise skills in a career counseling setting
Examine, apply, and analyze group work factors
Develop the ability to evaluate the psychometric strengths and weaknesses of individual psychological tests and measurements, using both conceptual and applied techniques
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