Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly altered the practice of couple/marital and family therapy (CMFT). While much has been written in other disciplines about competencies to be developed in integrating AI into one's work, to date no competencies have been presented for use in CMFT. In this article, we present the first competencies for AI in CMFT. These new competencies cross six domains and were informed by three other competency frameworks: the condensed core competencies for CMFT, interdisciplinary competencies for telebehavioral health, and AI competencies for medicine. Emphasis is placed on the development of AI-specific competencies that align with relational ethics and person-centered care.
Hertlein et al. (2026) studied this question.