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PhD - Child and Adolescent Therapy
As children and adolescents grow and interact with their environment, they impact their families and their families impact them. This creates a complex developmental process for everyone involved. To be effective in working with children and adolescents, family therapists need to be able to effectively assess this process, as well as connect research and practice to deliver evidence-based, contextually sensitive, culturally informed, and developmentally appropriate services. As such, the goal of the Child and Adolescent specialization in the PhD Marriage and Family Therapy degree program at National University is to equip doctoral-level therapists and researchers to be well prepared to respond to the needs of children and adolescents through therapy and programming, to engage in meaningful research projects, and to become leaders in the profession.
