Clinical and Research Sites
Master's and doctoral students in the Medical Family Therapy Program have opportunities to work and learn at locations across Saint Louis University, SSM Health and the Greater St. Louis area.
M.A. Program Clinical Sites
The Medical Family Therapy Program partners with multiple sites to provide students with experience and help them fulfill their clinical hour requirements. Students are supervised and work with diverse and underserved patient populations in the St. Louis community.
Ph.D. Program Clinical Sites
Doctoral students gain clinical experience through rotations, observations, field assignments and shadowing providers affiliated with geriatrics, internal medicine and psychiatry.
This medical building is an outpatient hub for the Department of Family and Community Medicine's primary care providers and specialists offering behavioral health services. The space is shared with other clinical departments, offering a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care.
Family Care Health Centers provides comprehensive health care services and works to reduce barriers to health care. Students often work with family medicine residents at the center in the Carondelet neighborhood. Duties include:
- Providing behavioral health services
- Facilitating behavioral health needs
- Conducting focus groups with staff and/or providers
- Observing pediatric and adult visits
- Providing feedback on family-centered skills
This centrally located hospital specializes in high-risk pregnancy care and fetal surgery. MFT interns have served as consultants and performed behavioral health screenings, medical genograms, crisis counseling and precepting.
Des Peres Location
Behavioral health services are integrated through a medical team, and services address the specialized mental health or chronic health conditions of patients referred by attending physicians.
Brentwood Location
Behavioral health services are offered to patients and families with bio-psychosocial needs. Behavioral health is integrated into ambulatory care services.
Research Labs
The Relationships and Brain Sciences Research Laboratory (RABS LAB) works to identify how interpersonal relationships can be both protective and a barrier to health and wellness.
For more information, contact Dixie Meyer at dixie.meyer@health.slu.edu.
The Social Determinants and Minority Stress Lab is a multidisciplinary lab that focuses on the intersections of identity, social determinants of health, and the reduction of barriers to care for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
The research team is made up of master's and doctoral students in the MFT program, as well as medical students, residents and collaborators across allied health fields.
For more information, contact Director Michelle Dalton, Ph.D., at michelle.dalton@health.slu.edu.