Final Project: Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling Families face many challenges in today's world and marriage, couple, and family counselors (MCF) are the professionals who help

Assignment Instructions
Final Project: Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling
Final Project: Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling
Families face many challenges in today's world and marriage, couple, and family counselors (MCF) are the
professionals who help families navigate difficult times. Families are a working system and each element of
that system impact the operation of the system and the individual members. Issues such as substance abuse,
family violence, divorce, mental illness, infidelity, and child abuse present counselors with numerous
treatment challenges. As an MCF counselor, will you be ready to address them?
For the Final Project, you will select one couple from the clients presented in the Married at First Sight
YouTube videos you viewed during each week of the course. You are to develop a case conceptualization plan
for one of the couples in the videos and present it in an academic paper with scholarly references from the
professional literature (e.g., Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, The Family
Journal, Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, Journal of Contemporary Family Therapy, Journal of
Counseling and Development).
Your project should include all of the following sections:
1. Identify the couple you chose and a brief description of the selected couple (name, gender, age,
relationship status, race/ethnicity, etc)
2. Discuss the presenting issues facing the couple
3. Identify any family life cycle considerations
4. Multicultural, legal, or ethical considerations regarding the couple's circumstances
5. Theoretical counseling model you would use as this couple's therapist with rationale
6. Assessments & Interventions you would use with this couple with rationale
7. Prognosis for the couple (Good, Fair, Poor) and how you arrived at this conclusion (reflection)
8. Reference Page (minimum of 5 references)