Delta Kappa, the International Marriage and Family Therapy Honor Society, is an academic and professional institution to provide marriage and family therapy professionals a face-to-face, ongoing scholarly forum for the exchange of ideas related to the development of research, theory, and clinical practice. 

 Delta Kappa, has symbolic and historical significance within the field of marriage and family therapy. DELTA represents the triangle, a core concept of relationship life within marriage and family therapy theory. The points of the triangle represent the three corners of the therapeutic relationship, composed of the client family present in the room, the therapists and therapeutic treatment team, and the external influences intertwined between lives of client families and professionals. KAPPA represents the universal symbol for knowledge. The shape of the KAPPA symbol has a single long vertical line representing the intervention that occurs in the therapeutic process, and two lines meeting at the midpoint of the vertical line creating a point of confluence with the therapist and the client system joining together for change. Together, the lines of this symbol represent the collaborative co-evolving nature of relationships with clients within the therapeutic system.

 The Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa was installed on December 4, 1998, at The University of Louisiana at Monroe. It is with great pride that the Friends University chapters, (Beta) at Wichita and (Gamma) at Kansas City, were installed and charter members initiated during the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy National Conference in October 2005.

 Through the innovative and ongoing work of the Friends University chapter, activity in this Honor Society has three primary aims:

• Emerging leaders in the field of marriage and family therapy are to be mentored in assuming the mantle of leadership in the marriage and family therapy profession.
• Ongoing scholarly forums are to be organized that present opportunities to engage and apply innovative research and theory on marriage and family therapy clinical practice.  
• Achievements of marriage and family therapy clinicians and scholars are to be recognized in ways that promote the visibility and dissemination of the profession’s contributions within the broader service provider sector.

Through these aims, the stature of the marriage and family therapy profession is to be enhanced each time that the torch of leadership is carried high by the current generation of marriage and family therapy scholars and practitioners in Delta Kappa, the International Marriage and Family Therapy Honor Society.