In the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy, students receive academic and clinical training in marriage and family therapy theory and practice. The curriculum includes a focus on the family as a system and the cultural and societal frameworks within which individuals, couples, and families grow and develop.

The department emphasize training therapists and scholars to challenge themselves through fostering relationships with others who hold various and diverse worldviews. This emphasis serves to increase cultural sensitivity, heighten students’ awareness of self in relation to others, and generate an understanding of the role played by context in issues presented in therapy by working toward the creation of an environment of openness, respect, honesty, and integrity.

The department is housed on campus at 426 Ostrom Avenue, along with the Goldberg Couple and Family Therapy Center, a clinical training and research facility equipped for live and videotaped supervision, which provides research opportunities for students and marriage and family therapy services to the surrounding community. Cooperative relationships exist between the department and a number of well-established local human service agencies that provide training and research opportunities for marriage and family therapy students.