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Centering The Voices Of International Students In Family Studies And Family Therapy Graduate Programs
Author(s) -
McDowell Teresa,
Fang ShiRuei,
Kosutic Iva,
Griggs Julie
Publication year - 2012
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.1752-0606.2012.00310.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , feeling , family therapy , transferability , medical education , relevance (law) , family studies , psychology , perception , graduate students , pedagogy , medicine , social psychology , sociology , political science , psychotherapist , statistics , mathematics , logit , neuroscience , law , anthropology
In this article, we report the results of a survey that accessed the perceptions of family studies and family therapy international master’s and doctoral students across the United States. Our goals included giving collective voice to the experience of international students and gathering their suggestions for improving programs. Themes that emerged from responses to open‐ and closed‐ended questions included feeling (mis)understood and (de)valued; forming personal connections and experiencing marginalization; the importance of including international perspectives in curricula; considering the relevance/transferability of knowledge; and attending to barriers to learning. Based on the results, we share suggestions for improving family studies and family therapy graduate programs relative to program planning, curricula revision, teaching strategies, and faculty development.