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dc.contributor.authorOstrom, Angela Lynn
dc.description.abstractOver the past 15 years, the literature in the field of couple and family therapy (CFT) has called for training programs to make issues of social justice a central concern in the training of couple and family therapists (Guanipa, 2003; Laszloffy & Hardy, 2000; Leslie & McDowell, 2004; McGeorge, Carlson, Erickson, & Guttormson, 2006). During that time the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) made several changes to the accreditation standards that required programs to integrate social justice principles and practices into CFT training. Recently, however, the COAMFTE removed many of these social justice requirements from its most current accreditation standards. Most notably, programs are now able to create their own definitions of diversity in addition to their own benchmarks for achieving diversity. The purpose of this study was to examine how CFT programs are currently defining diversity and whether or not those definitions are consistent with the current feminist and social justice training literature. Nineteen participants from different accredited CFT programs participated in the study. The results demonstrated inconsistency in the ways that programs define diversity and an overall lack of measureable benchmarks for achieving diversity.en_US
dc.publisherNorth Dakota State Universityen_US
dc.rightsNDSU policy 190.6.2en_US
dc.titleDiversity and Social Justice in Couple and Family Therapy Training: An Evaluation of Accredited Programsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-02T19:09:15Z
dc.date.available2024-02-02T19:09:15Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10365/33650
dc.subject.lcshMarital psychotherapy -- Study and teaching.en_US
dc.subject.lcshFamily psychotherapy -- Study and teaching.en_US
dc.subject.lcshCross-cultural counseling -- Study and teaching.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdfen_US
ndsu.degreeMaster of Science (MS)en_US
ndsu.collegeHuman Sciences and Educationen_US
ndsu.departmentHuman Development and Family Scienceen_US
ndsu.programHuman Development and Family Scienceen_US
ndsu.advisorCarlson, Tom Stone


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