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A taste of reflecting practice
Author(s) -
McGovern Marie,
Harmsworth Pete
Publication year - 2010
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.1467-6427.2010.00526.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , psychology , therapeutic modalities , taste , family member , modalities , family therapy , psychotherapist , clinical practice , medical education , therapeutic relationship , position (finance) , therapeutic touch , pedagogy , medicine , nursing , family medicine , physical therapy , alternative medicine , sociology , social science , finance , neuroscience , world wide web , computer science , economics , pathology
This article describes a training exercise in which students who are new to systemic practice but have some experience in therapeutic work in other modalities were invited to experience reflecting practice. The students were asked to follow a role‐played therapy session by offering reflections on the connections felt to a ‘family’ member. The students stood beside the ‘family member’, reflected on the problems and accounted for the connections felt in terms of particular resonances felt. The students thus experienced a therapeutic use of self congruent with the reflecting team approach and the therapeutic position adopted in reflecting practice.