Oklahoma Baptist University is located in Shawnee, OK and offers a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy. This program requires the completion of 45 credit hours within a flexible 2-year, 3-year, or 4-year track, and pass a comprehensive evaluation. Classes are offered between 4:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and meet once a week to accommodate students with full-time employment. Students are required to complete a 500-hour practicum, with opportunities to see clients in the Oklahoma Baptist University Kemp Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic and at external sites. OBU also offers an additional post masters certification in Medical Family Therapy. These classes are offered online and include an additional 80 hours of a MedFT practicum.
The program equips students for the practice of marriage and family therapy with an understanding of how to work from a Christian perspective. It focuses on both academic course work and supervised clinical experience with individuals, couples and families under a variety of clinical conditions. It endeavors to establish a professional role identity for the family therapist as a clinician who can work both in private and public domains, and in institutional as well as outpatient settings. Students receive intensive specialized training, which gives them a firm base for becoming competent therapists who understand and are able to treat individuals and families from a systems vantage point and know how to deal with the societal and cultural forces that influence family relationships. They are exposed to the variety of theoretical paradigms used in family therapy and assisted in critically examining each of them with the purpose of developing a proficiency as marriage and family therapists based on the integration of their personal qualities with their knowledge of individual, marital and family dynamics, resources, and possibilities for change.
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