Program Snapshot

Accreditation

WASC

Concentrations/Specializations Offered

Evening only:

The Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy program with a Latina/o mental health emphasis trains students to work with Latina/o communities within a Latina/o mental health context. The training program is committed to developing strong foundations in cultural and linguistic responsiveness. The Latina/o mental health emphasis is dedicated to preparing students to integrate a community-based, systemic perspective in their conceptualization and therapeutic approaches in working with underserved and unserved Latina/o communities. While
the program has a particular emphasis in training students to work with Latina/o communities, students enrolled in the program learn how to work with all communities and take general core foundational courses from the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy program in conjunction with specific Latina/o courses and experiential language development. A fundamental tenet of the Latina/o mental health emphasis is to assist students in developing their Spanish language skills as future therapists.

The Latina/o mental health emphasis is provided at the Irvine Graduate Campus. In order to make the program accessible to students across all campuses, students are permitted to enroll in the Latina/o mental health emphasis from any of the three graduate campuses in Encino, Irvine, or West Los Angeles. However, all Latina/o-specific courses needed to graduate from the emphasis area are offered only at the Irvine Graduate Campus.

LMFT Track or Dual LMFT/LPCC Track

LMFT/LPCC dual track (Online Format LMFT only)

Length of Program

• Daytime Format

  • 2 Years / 62 units

• Evening Format

  • 2-3 years / 60-66 units

• Online Format

  • 27 months / 62-68 units

Schedule/Format

• Daytime Format

  • The full-time, day-format program is available only at our Malibu campus. Classes are held from 9 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 4 or 5:30 pm. During the first semester, students attend class two full days and one half day. From the second semester on, students come to campus twice a week for a full day for their classes, which allows time during the rest of the week for students to work at their practicum sites.

  • During the fall and spring terms, each class meets once a week; during the shorter summer term, each class meets twice per week. The program is lock-step and the schedule of classes is predetermined.

  • You may switch from the day program to one of the evening programs; however, it is not possible to transfer into the day program from an evening program or to transfer back to the day program once a switch to the evening program has been made.

• Evening Format

  • Each student can progress at his or her own pace, taking fewer or more courses each term, depending on each individual's preference. Part-time students may take as few as 3 units per term and full-time students may take 12 or more units per term.

  • Classes in the evening format program are offered in the late afternoon and evening. Each class meets once per week from 4:15-7 PM, or from 7:15 -10 PM. Classes are offered Monday-Thursday. During the summer term, classes meet twice per week.

  • While the courses are offered in the evening, near the end of the program, students begin clinical training. Many of our clinical practicum sites only offer supervision and clinical counseling hours during weekdays. Students will need to adjust their daytime schedules to meet the practicum site schedule requirements.

  • At Pepperdine, we offer evening format psychology courses at our Irvine, Calabasas, and West Los Angeles Graduate Campuses. Once enrolled, students can take courses at any and all of our three campuses.

• Online Format

  • In contrast to the on-campus MACLP Evening Format program, students enrolled in the online program participate in four 11-week terms during the academic year.

  • The synchronous work is a 2 hour live class required for each class you take (generally Mon-Thur 5-730pm pst). So if you take two classes you would have two live zoom classes a week, and the rest is asynchronous work.

Program Start

• Daytime Format

  • Fall

• Evening Format

  • Fall, Spring, Summer

• Online Format

  • Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Estimated Total Program Tuition

• Daytime Format

  • $109,740

• Evening Format

  • $85,500-$94,050

• Online Format

  • $105,400-$115,600

Religious Orientation

None

Entering Class Size and Classroom Sizes

• Daytime Format

  • We aim for an entering class of approximately 45-46 students, who are then divided into two cohorts of 22-23 students each.

• Evening Format

  • Usually have around 150 students starting in Fall, and around 50 starting in Spring and Summer

  • Average class size is 14 students.

• Online Format

  • Average class size is 15 students.

Fieldwork Hours Accrued During Program

Those who ultimately want to become licensed as an LMFT in California will be required to complete a minimum of 225 hours of direct client contact in an approved clinical setting. Students ultimately seeking to become licensed as an LPCC in California will be required to complete a minimum of 280 hours of direct client contact in an approved clinical setting.

Personal Psychotherapy Requirement During Program

The psychology faculty and administration recommend personal therapy for all students training to be psychotherapists since it is believed that personal therapy is a vital component of the training and growth of the psychotherapist and that it is the professional responsibility of every therapist to identify, address, and work through personal and relational issues that may have an impact on clinical interactions with future clients.

Comprehensive Exam/Culminating Project/Thesis/Etc:

None