The curriculum leading to the MACP degree is designed to prepare students for individual, marriage, family, or child counseling in vocational, church, private, or institutional settings. The MACP (Licensure Track) is focused on preparing students to be licensed in California as a Marriage and Family Therapist or/and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. Licensure in some other states is possible, but not guaranteed and we recommend you review the requirements of your state’s licensing board. The MACP (Non-Licensure Track) is designed for students who want to gain the counseling skills and learn the scientific research provided by psychology without desiring licensure.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of the MACP program the student will be able to:

1. Apply a variety of evidence-based psychotherapeutic techniques and modalities that may be utilized to improve, restore, or maintain healthy individual, couple and family relationships.
2. Identify and apply cross-cultural mores and values to effective therapy, including the wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds common among California’s population.
3. Demonstrate values such as integrity, sensitivity, flexibility, insight, compassion and Christian ethical standards of conduct throughout the academic process.
4. Prove competency in the assessment and treatment of diverse people groups within a recovery-oriented philosophy.
5. Bring glory to God by understanding and applying biblical truth to the study and application of marriage and family therapy.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

Each candidate for the MACP degree must meet the general graduation requirements and complete the applicable program, either licensure track or non-licensure track. The non-licensure track includes the completion of a master’s thesis (capstone project) and its oral defense before the thesis committee and other invited clinicians and professionals by the February before commencement.

1. Complete 63 total units of graduate level courses with a minimum 3.0 GPA.
2. Complete an additional pre-requisite 9 units of master’s level biblical foundation courses with a minimum 3.0 GPA. These courses may be taken prior to or concurrently with MACP studies.
3. Be recommended by the faculty based on demonstrated moral integrity and clinical competency. A quorum of at least six Behavioral Sciences faculty (including the Dean and the Practicum Internship professor) must agree to recommend the student for graduation.