Enhance your proficiency of the interface of illness, family and healthcare delivery
Drexel University Online now offers a Post-Master’s Certificate in Medical Family Therapy. This 14-credit (4 course) certificate program is designed to introduce a variety of currently practicing health care professionals to the ways acute and chronic medical illnesses and conditions influence and are influenced by psychosocial, relational, and family conditions and environments. Additionally, couple and family therapists and other professionals trained in the subspecialty of medical family therapy (or collaborative healthcare) will learn to work cooperatively to bridge gaps in the health care systems, and provide comprehensive and culturally congruent family focused services.
Ideal candidates for this certificate include experienced couple and family therapists who are seeking to develop their clinical knowledge and expand the scope of their clinical practice, graduate students in couple and family therapy and related disciplines (such social work, psychology, creative arts, rehabilitation science, physician assistant, and physicians), and clergy, physicians, nurses, and allied health care professionals seeking to update and/ or improve their knowledge about families, illness and collaborative practice.
After completing this program graduates will be able to:
- Apply family systems perspective and its relationships to health, illnesses and recovery
- Assess the impact of healthcare problems on the family system, using a family lifecycle perspective
- Evaluate the role of family members in promoting positive health outcomes
- Develop effective relationships and intervention strategies with families utilizing appropriate cultural frameworks
- Appraise and synthesize best practice collaborative approaches to health care
- Analyze health care policies that impact children, families and aging populations
- Demonstrate professional awareness and use of self in the health care delivery process
Post-Master’s Certificate in Medical Family Therapy key program features and benefits:
- Unique: The program’s international reputation and unique emphasis on cultural competence allows students to demonstrate collaboration and cultural sensitivity within the context of health care excellence
- Flexible: Totally online - you never have to come to campus; you can complete it at your own pace
- Career-oriented: Courses enable learners to conceptually and practically apply the curricula to their individualized specialty area
- Affordable: Special tuition for online students. Special tuition rates apply for employees of partnering corporations and members of partner professional associations
Interested in learning more? View the curriculum for our post-master’s certificate in medical family therapy.
If you have questions, please call 877-215-0009.
