This course is designed to introduce persons going into ministry to marriage and family counseling.  Persons in ministry are consistently confronted with issues involving relationships in the family and in the marriage in particular.  The content of this course consists of recognizing the complexity of marriage and family units,  the introduction of different theoretical perspectives on marriage and family counseling, and skill development through learning basic intervention models when confronted with marriage and family distress.  Focus in the course will be on looking at marriage and family from an integrated biblical and psychological counseling perspective.