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Evaluation of Family Therapy Trainees: Acquisition of Cognitive and Therapeutic Behavior Skills
Author(s) -
PULLEYBLANK ELLEN,
SHAPIRO RODNEY J.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1986.00591.x
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , cognition , psychology , cognitive skill , family therapy , cognitive intervention , medical education , clinical psychology , medicine , psychotherapist , psychiatry
In this study, which describes the evaluation of a structural family therapy training program, we developed an evaluation procedure that can be used with other similar training programs. Trainees were evaluated before and after training as to their improvement in cognitive, case‐planning and in‐therapy intervention skills. Results suggest a progression of skill learning, beginning with cognitive understanding, followed by case planning, and then intervention skills. Though trainees made significant progress in cognitive and planning skills, this was not the case with intervention skills. Trainees' self‐evaluations were similar to their results on other measures.