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Antioch's Child, Couple
and Family Therapy (CCFT) program offers you comprehensive clinical
training for a career as a licensed marriage and family therapist.
Classes emphasize developing your capabilities to work at multiple
levels of clinical treatment with children, couples and families.
The CCFT program is 72 quarter credits. Classes are offered Monday
through Thursday late afternoons and evenings for students from
the metropolitan Seattle area. Concentrated scheduling is available
Thursday evenings and during the day Fridays and Saturdays for students
commuting from more distant locations. You may begin the program
in the fall, winter or spring quarter.
Core Courses (41 credits)
All coursework is completed prior to your internship.
- Family of Origin Systems
- Multicultural Perspectives
- Communication and Counseling Skills
- Theories/Practice of Counseling
- Systems Perspectives in Family Therapy I and II
- Human Sexuality
- Human Development in the Family Life Cycle
- Psychopathology
- Psychodiagnostics and Treatment Planning
- Ethics and Professional Issues
- Ethics in Family Practice
- Research Methods: Introduction or Advanced
- Research in Family Practice
Elective Courses (15 credits)
This program affords you the flexibility to individualize your studies
based upon your professional goals and interests. Choose approximately
five courses to satisfy your elective requirements. Courses from
which you may choose include the following:
- Applied Couple Therapy
- Abusive Relationships
- Addictions and Substance Abuse
- Loss and Grief
- Clinical Treatment of Children
- Clinical Treatment of Adolescents
- Psychopharmacology
- Counseling Culturally Specific Populations
Internship Courses (16 credits)
- Internship Preparation (taken two quarters before beginning
internship)
- CCFT Internship I,II, III and IV
- Case Consultation I, II, III and IV
Internship Experience
All students participate in an internship in a professional setting.
This experience will enable you to validate and clarify the theory
you acquire in the classroom as you develop your own role as a clinician.
Examples of internship sites include the following:
- College counseling centers
- Group homes
- Homeless shelters
- Youth and family services
- Community centers
- Public mental health clinics
- Jails
- Penitentiaries
- In-patient psychiatric hospitals
Program requirements and course offerings
are subject to change.
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