College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 2015-2016 Catalog

78 The review will be publically announced to the Department of Family Therapy community, and open for only DFT faculty and students to attend. These events are not only a review of the student’s portfolio of clinical work, but also an opportunity for active conversation with, and about, the clinical work of their colleagues of the dissertation. Care should be taken regarding appropriate dress, professional demeanor, clarity of presentation, and respect for clients and colleagues. Upon completion of successfully passing the public presentation, the faculty review committee considers all of the materials presented in light of:  The evaluation rubrics attached to those materials;  The manner in which they were presented;  The overall professionalism of the presenter, including dress, manner, tone, etc.; final defense, and  The manner and substance of the ways in which the presenter handled questions, criticisms, theoretical disagreements, or ethical concerns raised by reviewers or members of the audience during the course of the review. 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. 3. 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