Mind For Therapy

I am teaching as an adjunct professor for the University of Louisiana Monroe this semester. It will be my first experience teaching a course online. 22-24 students in a doctoral level class is a lot to handle, but I am very excited about the course. Its own couples therapy. I'm using some classic texts like Mirages of Marriage (a must read) and Pragmatics of Human Communication, as well as the more recently published Passionate Marriage.

I have also been interviewing students applying for a open intership position at the Family Systems Institute. One of my top choices is a student from Liberty University. She is studying in online program from that institution.

This gets me to thanking about how education, particularly college education, is moving more and more to the online format. I am surprisingly a huge fan of this trend. I think there are by utilzing practicing professionals as on-site supervisors students can recieve tremendous real work experience, while accessing top faculty for a knowledge base online.

I am curious about how licensing boards around the country are handling this shift. I know that currently in Louisiana, the LMFT advisory board will not license a MFT that graduated from an online program. The LPC board, however, will. I do hope the LMFT board will join the information age soon. I think it is a bitt