Closing the Loop: Addressing Diversity in a COAMFTE-Accredited MFT Education Program

Katafiasz, Heather; Patton, Rikki

doi:10.1007/s10591-020-09558-2

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“…Researchers have called for an increased focus on topics related to diverse, multicultural, and marginalized communities in the training of marriage and family therapists (Green, 1998;Hardy & Laszloffy, 1992;Katafiasz & Patton, 2021;Killian & Hardy, 1998;McDowell et al, 2002;McDowell & Hernández, 2010;Rivera & Grauf-Grounds, 2020;Rivera et al, 2021;Wilson & Stith, 1993;Woolley, 2010). It is recognized that marriage and family therapists must be prepared for the growing diversity and inequality that exists in the lives of the families they serve.…”

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A comparison of classroom‐based and online multicultural training course within a marriage and family therapy training program

Rivera

Armes

Cheon

et al. 2023

J Marital Family Therapy

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This study contributes to an emerging area of research on online learning within marriage and family therapy training programs while responding to the need for research on the effectiveness of multicultural training marriage and family therapists receive. Using 32 students in a marriage and family therapy program and a pretest-posttest design, this study focused on student outcomes across a classroom-based multicultural training course and an online section of the same course. Support was found for the effectiveness of each instructional modality in delivering multicultural training. Findings also indicated that student gains did not significantly differ across students in the two course sections. This is the first study to provide evidence that online learning does not compromise the effectiveness of multicultural training for marriage and family therapists and adds evidence to the claim that the multicultural training marriage and family therapists receive is effective in achieving its aims.

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