- Link:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3358
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- Subjects
- Education Competency Couple and Family Therapy Outcomes
- Creator:
- Brooks, Stephanie
- Language
- en_US
- Relation
- Drexel University. Drexel Theses and Dissertations. Creative Arts in Therapy Theses.
- Type
- Thesis
- Description
- For more than a decade the issue of provider
competency has been linked to significant problems in the delivery
of health care services. This in turn has increased attention
towards evaluating the quality of education and clinical training
in health care professional programs. In 2004, the American
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy established core
competencies (MFT CC) for the profession. Adopting clinical
competency will require couple and family therapy (CFT)
professional education programs, at a minimum to develop
outcome-based educational approaches and become more adept at
measuring CFT student’s clinical competency and development over
time. It further suggests CFT educators need to have competencies
to develop and implement an outcome based curriculum. Yet, little
is known about CFT faculty aptitude in this area. The primary aim
of this study was to identify and describe CFT faculty’ attitude,
concerns, experiences, and perceptions about competency and outcome
based education. Results of the study provide valuable information
about how faculty are managing five years after the introduction of
the MFT CC and the new COAMFTE standards. The CFT faculty clearly
value both the MFT CC and OBE . The MFT CC are used to influence
program curriculum and CFT faculty believe they will improve the
clinical evaluation of students. The CFT faculty desire to be
involved in the ongoing development of the MFT CC and want the
AAMFT to offer more training. Furthermore, CFT faculty are
seriously adopting an OBE paradigm despite reporting they received
less than 5 hours of training in the approach. While CFT faculty
found their institutions supportive of the OBE approach, the
findings suggest they are overextended and stressed. The
implications of the findings are discussed for both faculty and
program development. Future directions for research are proposed
including examining the similarities and differences between CFT
faculty in doctoral and post-degree institute programs to better
appreciate how the faculty from the COAMFTE accredited have
responded to this paradigmatic shift.
- Relation
- Drexel University. Drexel Theses and Dissertations.
Creative Arts in Therapy Theses.
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