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Iowa MFT Education Review: revised 03/201
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COURSEWORK CATEGORIES
COURSE TITLE
COURSE
NUMBER
CREDIT
HOURS
INSTITUTION WHERE
COURSE WAS TAKEN
1. At least nine semester hours or the equivalent
in each of the three areas listed below:
(1) Theoretical foundations of marital and family
therapy systems: Any course that deals primarily
in areas such as family life cycle, theories of family
development, marriage or the family, sociology of
the family, families under stress, the contemporary
family, family in a social context, the cross-
cultural family, youth/adult/aging and the family,
family subsystems, and individual interpersonal
relationships (marital, parental, sibling)
(2) Assessment and treatment in family and marital
therapy: Any course that deals primarily in areas
such as family therapy methodology; family
assessment; treatment and intervention methods; and
overview of major clinical theories of marital and
family therapy, such as communications, contextual,
experiential, object relations, strategic, structural,
systemic and transgenerational
(3) Human development: Any course that deals
primarily in areas such as human development,
personality theory and human sexuality (One course
must be psychopathology.)
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IOWA MFT Education Review
Coursework Requirements Verication
Applicant’s Name:
Date:
1. This application requires completion of a master’s or doctoral degree in mental health, behavioral science, or a counseling-
related field from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education
and at least 60 semester or 80 quarter hours of graduate-level coursework including the specified number of graduate-level
credit hours in each of the coursework areas detailed below. For applicants who entered a program of study prior to July
1,
2010, this application requires completion of a master’s or doctoral degree from a college or university accredited by an
agency recognized by the United States Department of Education and at least 45 semester hours or 60 quarter hours of
graduate-level coursework including the specified number of graduate-level credit hours in each of the coursework areas
detailed below
.
2. Have an official sealed transcript from all graduate institutions attended (do not include undergraduate) sent directly from
the school to CCE.
3. Include coursework descriptions for the coursework requirements and practicum/internship. Coursework descriptions must
be photocopied from the catalogue for the year in which the courses were taken. Course descriptions typed by the applicant
will not be accepted.
4. This form must be filled out in order for CCE to review your coursework.
If CCE determines that a course does not fit in a
particular category, it will review your transcript for other course possibilities.
REQUIRED COURSES
If you have taught a graduate-level course at a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the United States
Department of Education, that class may be accepted to satisfy a coursework area. Applicants wishing to satisfy a requirement
in this way must submit a syllabus from the semester the course was taught along with a letter of attestation from the department
head. The letter must be on university letterhead.