Marriage and Family Therapists

Tasks Include:

• Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.
• Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, and financial difficulties.
• Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.
• Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.
• Collect information about clients, using techniques such as testing, interviewing, discussion, and observation.
• Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems.
• Determine whether clients should be counseled or referred to other specialists in such fields as medicine, psychiatry, and legal aid.
• Confer with clients to develop plans for posttreatment activities.
• Confer with other counselors in order to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services.

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