Academic Programs

About the Program

For those who are interested in working with children, adolescents, and families in schools or in a private practice or community health setting—or both—Campbellsville University offers the Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy and School Counseling Pupil Personnel Services Credential (MFT/PPS). The MFT/PPS program provides extensive knowledge and training in the field of mental health and about working in complex school systems.

Program Schedule

Our MFT/PPS program is an 82-unit curriculum delivered over six semesters, including two summer semesters. Although the program is rigorous, in most cases flexible scheduling allows students to combine school requirements with full-time work. After completion of the program, students find that they have many options for employment in the counseling professions. 

• Students attend one full day of MFT classes either on Saturday or on a weekday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
• A three-hour weekly Case Conference section for the first two semesters on Monday night.
• An Introduction to School Counseling course on five Tuesdays evenings from 5p.m. to 8 p.m. in the first semester.
• Beginning as early as the second semester, students may gain practicum hours at a clinical placement and school site.
• During the second year, students take SC courses on Monday and Wednesday evenings and a full day of MFT classes.
• Students also attend a three-hour practicum course one evening twice a month while completing field placements hours.

Note: Students must be supervised by a BBS- and AAMFT-approved supervisor to meet BBS requirements.

Students may also seek traineeship/intern opportunities in K-12 Public School settings where a licensed MFT or licensed Social Worker (a clinician who has held their license for 2 years and has taken the 6-hour supervision training course) is also employed. 

• Phase One requires students to gain 100 hours of field placement experience in a school setting.
• Phase Two requires students to gain 600 additional hours of field placement experience divided between at least two different levels of the public school system.

Case Conference

This course begins in the first semester of the program and introduces students to real world psychotherapy practice and school counseling issues, first as observers, then as co-therapists. It provides a hands-on training experience within a small group, which meets once a week. In Case Conference, students observe actual therapy sessions conducted by a licensed therapist from behind a one-way mirror. Students participate in discussion with the therapist/instructor about the clinical work they have just observed. Students are invited to be part of the ongoing therapy as co-therapists or participants on a reflecting team. Through role-plays and modeling, students learn communication principles and basic counseling skills that they will need as they begin to see their own clients in practicum. Because the curriculum is carefully designed as an integrated experience, students’ participation in Case Conference will reflect the same foundational concepts that are being presented in their first year of academic courses.