The Development of Core Competencies for the Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy

In response to a series of national policy reports regarding what has been termed the “quality chasm” in health and mental health care in the United States, in January 2003, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy convened a task force to develop core competencies (CC) for the pract...

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Published inJournal of marital and family therapy Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 417 - 438
Main Authors Nelson, Thorana S., Chenail, Ronald J., Alexander, James F., Crane, D. Russell, Johnson, Susan M., Schwallie, Linda
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2007
Blackwell Publishing
Subjects
Allied Health Personnel
Attitude of Health Personnel
Behavioral Objectives
Changes
Clinical Competence - standards
Committees
Core competencies
Education
Educational Change
Family Counseling
Family therapy
Family Therapy - education
Family Therapy - organization & administration
Humans
Learning
Marital Therapy - education
Marital Therapy - organization & administration
Marriage
Marriage Counseling
Mental depression
Mental health
Mental health care
Mental Health Services - organization & administration
Minimum Competencies
Models, Educational
Models, Organizational
Outcome Based Education
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Professional-Patient Relations
Professions
Program Development
Quality of care
Skills
Task forces
Therapy
Thinking Skills
United States
United States
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Summary:In response to a series of national policy reports regarding what has been termed the “quality chasm” in health and mental health care in the United States, in January 2003, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy convened a task force to develop core competencies (CC) for the practice of marriage and family therapy (MFT). The task force also was responding to a call for outcome‐based education and for the need to answer questions about what marriage and family therapists do. Development of the CC moves the field of MFT into a leading‐edge position in mental health. This article describes the development of the CC, outcomes of the development process for the competencies, and recommendations for their continued development and implementation.
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The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge the hard work and input of William Northey and other AAMFT staff who worked with us on the Core Competencies project: Michael Bowers, Karen Gautney, and David Bergman.
Thorana S. Nelson, PhD, Utah State University; Ronald J. Chenail, PhD, Nova Southeastern University; James F. Alexander, PhD, University of Utah; D. Russell Crane, PhD, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University; Susan M. Johnson, PhD, University of Ottawa; Linda Schwallie, MS, RN, Prevea Clinic, Green Bay, WI.
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ISSN:0194-472X
1752-0606
DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2007.00042.x