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      1. Marriage + Family Therapy

         Welcome to the field of Marriage and Family Therapy. MFT is a clinical field, perhaps the only one of the mental health disciplines in which therapy (and your training) rests on relational/systemic theory. MFT’s believe that human behavior and problems make sense in context, and context includes individuals’ and families’ histories, values, experiences, perspectives, and lifestyles. Family therapists learn to think multi-culturally, appreciating and respecting race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, and gender, to name just a few. For family therapists this is the only ethical way of working with clients.