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The course is designed to prepare participants to supervise marriage and family therapists, including those in
graduate school or working toward licensure or AAMFT Clinical Membership. It also is designed to complement
supervision mentoring and preparation for writing the Philosophy of Supervision paper.
Marriage and family therapy supervision occurs within a systemic context and the
personal philosophy paper must reflect this perspective. Course materials, the Approved Supervision Designation
Standards and Responsibilities Handbook, and listserv discussions serve to assist participants in the writing of
the paper. Many participants have not written major papers in many years and the instructors hope that this
assignment will be more enlightening and useful for participants than frightening. To that end, we provide what we
hope are helpful guidelines, tips, and tricks as well as requirements for the paper and our evaluation
criteria.
Paper Guidelines and
Resources
Following are some example papers and the evaluations that go with
them.
Example paper A.doc
Philosophy of
Supervision Paper example B.doc
Philosophy paper B
evaluation.doc
Philosophy of
Supervision Paper example C.doc
Philosophy paper C
evaluation.doc
Paper Submission Process
After completing both the didactic course and
the interactive Supervision track at the AAMFT annual conference, participants may submit their Philosophy of
Supervision papers for evaluation. The course and interactive track must be completed within 1 year of the date of
registration for the didactic course. Paper should be submitted well enough ahead of this deadline for changes to
be made if required.
Successfully completed papers will have no more than two "2"s with all other categories
scoring "3" or above.
Submit the paper to
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