Montana State University  

The Marriage and Family Counseling program prepares counselors to address mental health and relationship problems from a family systems perspective. Students are taught a conceptual framework for assessment and intervention that emphasizes the multiple systems and family context of human development. In addition, the program is a positive, competency-based model of family functioning that focuses on individual development and treatment in context of interaction systems within and between the family and outer environmental systems (i.e., economic, social, and cultural), and emphasizes collaboration across mental health disciplines.