30Marriage and Family Therapist Interview Questions & Answers
1.Why are you interested in this agency?
2.What are your salary expectations?
3.What type of patients do you typically work best with?
4.What types of patient is most difficult for you?
5.What are your career goals?
6.Can you tell me about your background and training in marriage and family therapy?
7.What percentage of your practice is marriage therapy?
8.How do you see the importance of keeping a marriage together when there are problems?
9.Are you part of a professional association that credentials marriage and family therapists?
10.What counseling issues do you feel you are best trained to handle?
11.What counseling issues do you prefer to refer to another therapist?
12.Are you reachable in a crisis?
13.What other centers have you applied to?
14.Tell me about your education.
15.How did you first become interested in counseling and therapy?
16.How would you describe your treatment style?
17.Do you take your work home with you? Or do you leave it at the office?
18.What kind of evaluation process do you use to recommend a treatment plan?
19.What are the measurable criteria you use to assess how well treatment is working?
20.What psychotherapeutic approaches and tools do you use?
21.How long do your counseling sessions last?
22.How do you decide which approach is best for the patient? Do you ever use more than one approach? When?
23.How do you help your couples set goals?
24.How do you involve key family members or friends?
25.Why should we hire you?
26.Tell me something about yourself that I wouldn't read from your resume.
27.What is your communication style?
28.What is your greatest strength?
29.What would your most recent supervisor say about you?
30.What did you like most about your previous position?
