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Bringing the self into family therapy training: personal and professional consultations with trainee families
Author(s) -
Woodcock Jeremy,
Rivett Mark
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2007.00400.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , training (meteorology) , value (mathematics) , medical education , professional development , psychology , systemic therapy , medicine , nursing , family medicine , psychotherapist , physics , cancer , machine learning , computer science , breast cancer , meteorology
The qualifying level of training in family therapy at Bristol University requires trainees to attend three ‘therapeutic consultations’ with their families with a recognized systemic practitioner, to consider issues pertinent to their development as therapists. This innovation is synchronic with the course philosophy which foregrounds the training in the development of ‘self’. Survey results on the consultations suggest that trainees report significant ‘news of difference’ and all recommend it as a mechanism for other trainees. The consultants also affirmed the value of the sessions they have facilitated. The paper describes the practicalities of how the consultations are organized.