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MF 847 Advanced Medical Family Therapy: 3 semester hours

Extant research and practice suggests that integrating medical and psychotherapy services significantly improves treatment outcomes, patient health, and provider satisfaction. Consequently, there is burgeoning interest—locally and nationally—in developing and maintaining better integrated healthcare services within outpatient and inpatient medical settings. In this course, you will be have opportunities to teach masters level graduate students on topics related to medical family therapy. Further, you will demonstrate how you are integrating hallmarks of medical family therapy—collaboration, systemic conceptualization of disease, innovation—into your clinical practice. Finally, you will identify gaps in the research of medical family therapy and will design a related study.