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BRIEF REPORT: ON AN EXERCISE FOR TRAINING BEGINNING MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPISTS IN LANGUAGE SKILLS
Author(s) -
Latz Martha
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1996.tb00191.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , experiential learning , psychology , medical education , family therapy , psychotherapist , applied psychology , medicine , pedagogy , computer science , world wide web
Summary This paper is a brief report on the administration and outcome of an experiential exercise for training beginning martial and family therapists in language skills. The exercise consists of two parts. In the first part, only the audio of a film clip is engaged, and participants are asked to describe what they heard. During the second part, both the audio and video of this clip are presented together and the participants are again asked for a description. This exercise is used to sensitize beginning therapists to the possibility of their own and their clients' idiosyncratic application of words during a therapy session.