Couple & Family Therapy Accreditation & Licensure
CFT Program Goals and Student Learning Outcomes
The Couple and Family Therapy Program is committed to the following program goals and Student Learning Outcomes (SLO).
Program Goal #1 (Diversity): To train professionals who are committed to diversity and cultural responsiveness in relational/systemic therapy.
- SLO #1: Students will demonstrate clinical competency in working in diverse settings and with diverse client populations.
- SLO#2: Students will demonstrate knowledge of multicultural conceptualization.
Program Goal # 2 (Systemic knowledge and practice): To prepare professionals who are competent in knowledge and clinical practice using relational/systemic therapy.
- SLO# 3: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of family systems therapy theories.
- SLO# 4: Students will apply a systemic framework in their clinical practice.
Program Goal # 3 (Research): To prepare professionals who are informed in family systems research.
- SLO# 5: Students will develop a research proposal on topics related to family systems practice.
- SLO# 6: Students will learn to critically analyze common family systems assessments.
Program Goal # 4 (Ethics): To prepare professionals with knowledge and skills in legal and ethical practice of family systems therapy.
- SLO# 7: Students will demonstrate an applied knowledge of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) legal and ethical guidelines and professional standards.
Graduate Achievement Data
University of Colorado Denver’s Couple and Family Therapy (CFT) program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE), 112 South Alfred Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, (703) 838-9808, coa@aamft.org. Below is our Graduate Achievement Data of cohorts that began since the CFT program’s initial accreditation in May of 2020.
| Graduate Achievement Data for Couple and Family Therapy Program Accredited: May 1, 2020 Advertised Program Length: FT: 2.5 years PT: 4 years | ||||||||
| Cohort Year Students Entered Program | # of Students in Program | Graduation Rate in Advertised Time (%)* | Job Placement Rate (%)** | Licensure Rate (%)*** | ||||
| FT | PT | FT | PT | FT | PT | FT | PT | |
| 2020-2021 | 18 | NS | 50% | 0 | 100% | IP | IP | IP |
| 2021-2022 | 29 | 3 | IP | IP | IP | IP | IP | IP |
| 2022-2023 | 27 | NS | IP | IP | IP | IP | IP | IP |
| 2023-2024 | 29 | 1 | IP | IP | IP | IP | IP | IP |
FT = Full‐time
PT = Part-time
NS = No Students
IP = In Process: Students from the cohort listed have yet to graduate from the cohort year listed.
Programs are only required to provide data on the past 7 years/cohort or since the program was initially accredited, whichever is shorter.
* Graduation Rate is the program’s Advertised Length of Completion which is how long the program is designed to complete as written.
** Job Placement Rate is the percentage of graduates from the cohort year that are employed utilizing skills learned in the COAMFTE accredited program.
*** Licensure rate is the percentage of graduates from the cohort year that have achieved ANY level of MFT licensure.
For Master’s programs only, COAMFTE has established a benchmark of 70% licensure rate for each cohort.
Licensure
The MA in CFT program fulfills the educational requirements for licensure in the State of Colorado. Full details of MFT licensure eligibility can be found on the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) website.
Eligibility for licensure in MFT varies across the nation with unique requirements in each state. The following resources are available to verify requirements in other states: