CAHSS Graduate Catalog 2018 - 2019

83 Portfolio and Exam Timeline Information For students to remain within the three year completion of the program, they will submit their portfolio during the 6 th term, and show readiness to proceed with their Applied Clinical Project their 3 rd year; failure to do so means that a student will need additional time in the program. The program has a maximum of 5 years to complete. Applied Clinical Project (ACP) The Applied Clinical Project (ACP) should be seen as the capstone experience of the D.M.F.T. degree process. The ACP is the student’s demonstration of his/her ability to carry out a high quality, professional program of systemically based treatment. The ACP should be a project the student carries out under CAHSS faculty supervision from concept, to proposal, to implementation, and finally through eventual evaluation of the effectiveness of the program. An ACP is viewed as a career launching undertaking. At the time of its culmination, students should be able to articulate and demonstrate to other mental health professionals their unique area of systems based practice expertise. Students should review and be familiar with the ACP Guidelines available on the website. Students select a DFT full-time faculty supervisor and one other full-time faculty reviewer for their ACP only after they have completed the majority of their coursework and have successfully passed their Clinical Portfolio. All proposals, data collection, and analysis toward the completion of the ACP must be conducted under faculty supervision. At the end of the ACP, students will develop a professional quality presentation and review of their entire project to a faculty committee and the public. The faculty committee will consist of their project supervisor, faculty reviewer, and any other students and terminally degreed professionals that the student wishes to invite. However, only full time faculty of CAHSS will have the final say on the acceptability of the final product and its final presentation. Students register for a minimum of 6 credit hours of Applied Clinical Project. Students must continue to register for ACP credit hours until they complete, successfully defend, and finalize their project. This may entail taking more than the minimum Applied Clinical Project credit hours stipulated in the catalog. If for some reason, students cannot continue working on their ACP, they must apply in writing to their faculty supervisor and Program Director for a leave of absence, which must be in place three weeks prior to the start of a term. If a student requests a leave for longer than one term or takes a second term-long leave, they may not be able, upon their return, to continue with the faculty supervisor with whom they had earlier been working. If a student requests a leave for longer than three consecutive terms and has not registered for the following term, they are considered inactive and would need to reapply to the program. If a Leave of Absence is requested and approved, this does not extend the 7 year timeframe for completing the degree program. Individual Supervision for State Licensure or AAMFT Membership Due to the AAMFT Code of Ethics principles related to multiple relationships and conflict of interest, full-time faculty may not serve as the supervisor for licensure for students enrolled in the program. Licensure Exam Preparation The Department assists in preparing students for the AMFTRB national exam, taken after students graduate with a terminal degree in family therapy, through coursework. A powerpoint study guide has been prepared for graduates to help them study, and the department stays in close touch with graduates to assist them as requested as they study for the exam. Graduates of our DMFT in Family Therapy program are eligible to become