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Alliant International University–Sacramento

Couple & Family Therapy Program

About the Program

Last Updated: 
September 22, 2011

The small class sizes at the Sacramento site offer an opportunity for students to have greater individual interaction with the professors and each other. While geographically distant from the parent campus in Fresno, students at the Sacramento site do have access to all Alliant student benefits, including library services.

Program Overview

Department Emphasis: 
Area Percentage
  Family Therapy100%
Programs Options: 
Master's, Doctoral

Address & Contact Information

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2030 West El Camino, Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95833
United States
38° 36' 48.348" N, 121° 30' 32.904" W
p: 916-561-3212
f: 916-565-2959
http://www.alliant.edu/cspp

Graduate Program

Courses Offered: 
  • Group Therapy
  • CFT Theories and Techniques I & II
  • CFT Law and Ethics
  • Introduction to Psychopathology
  • CFT Theories
  • CFT Techniques
  • Parent-Child Therapy
  • MFT Techniques Lab
  • Diversity and the Family
  • Individual and Family Life Cycle
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Trauma & Crisis Intervention
  • CFT Research Methods
  • Community Mental Health
  • Couples Therapy
  • Sex Therapy
  • CFT Assessment
  • Chemical Dependency and the Family
  • CFT Practicum

 

Master's Level

Program Options: 
  • Couple & Family Therapy
Comments: 

The Master of Arts in Couple and Family Therapy program provides training for a career as a professional marriage and family therapist. Students are trained to treat relational mental health issues with individuals, couples and families from a systemic perspective. Skills are developed in the mental health assessment, diagnosis and treatment of individuals and relationship systems. The program provides an integrative approach to the major systemic theories and interventions. It fulfills all academic requirements for application to the State of California's examination for a marriage and family therapist license.

 

Doctoral Level

Program Options: 
  • Couple & Family Therapy (Psy.D.)
Comments: 

 

The Couple and Family Therapy (CFT) doctoral and master's programs at Alliant provide students with the essential training needed to pursue a career as a professional marriage and family therapist. The Master of Arts in CFT allows students to be licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and the Doctor of Psychology in CFT allows a student to be licensed as a marital and family therapist and as a psychologist. Students who complete the CFT master's at Alliant can apply all of their master's degree coursework and practicum hours toward the doctoral program.