Joan Delores Atwood, Ph.D.

MFT 298-299

Supervision in Marriage and Family Therapy

3 s.h. each semester

Fall and Spring Semesters

Office Hours: To Be Announced

E-mail: CPRJDA@Hofstra.Edu

Phone Number: 516-463-5756

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course anables the student to practice in marriage and family therapy in a community or social agency or a hospital setting. Fieldwork supervision is provided by an agency staff member approved by the University. The student is also supervised on a regular basis by a university faculty member. Assignment is determined by the student's interest and readiness. A minimum of 300 hours per semester is required.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

The course format is to assist students with the following:

• Learn to and practice presenting individual, couple, and family cases in a professional way as would occur in an agency setting. In addition, students are afforded the benefit of feedback about their presentations, in an environment that is conducive to honesty and geared toward growth.

• Receive guidance, direction, and supervision around student’s cases and receive exposure to other students’ cases and supervisions.

• Learn to and practice writing up summaries of individual, couple, and family cases for these presentations. In so doing, students receive feedback as to their strengths and areas needed to grow.

• Via the final project, students learn to not only write and present professional papers to professional audiences, but to receive feedback on strengths and areas needed to grow.

• Via the assigned texts, students receive exposure to and learn to assess sophisticated areas in the field of leading edge marriage and family therapy.

RULES, REGULATIONS, AND MATERIALS TO BE HANDED IN:

Please keep in mind that all students are required to submit the following:

· All students should obtain a Supervision Handbook. This Handbook is on file in the Department Secretary’s ofice and is also on file in my office. Please read the Handbook thoroughly. as all students are expected to follow the Handbook rules.

· The semester prior to taking MFT 298, students must apply for supervision. The form is in the Handbook. This form should be submitted to the Department Secretary.

· Submit the name and address of your agency supervisor and agency to the Department Secretary in order to ensure that they receive credit vouchers. This applies only to MFT 298-299 students, not 269-270 students.

· Students are responsible for finding their own internship sites.

· Students may only do a placement at an approved site. Names of approved sites may be obtained from the Handbook or the Marriage and Family Therapy Club.

· If a student wishes to do an internship in a site not yet approved, s/he must first speak with me in order to obtain approval.

· All supervisors in agencies must be approved prior to accepting a position in an agency and must have an updated resume on file in my office.

· Students are required to put in 20 hours per week in your placement. If you have made arrangements where you are running groups and the groups have not yet run, you must make arrangements for the groups to be run at a later point in time before the semester is over. If this does not happen, you will have to delay completion of the course until you put in the appropriate number of hours.

· Once a student has procured a placement site, certain forms must be submitted on a regular basis. They are found in the Handbook. Student logs must be handed in weekly to me, signed by your field supervisor.

· Midterm and End term evaluations must be handed in, signed by your supervisor.

· You are not allowed to use your job (where you are paid) for your placement.