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Integration of teaming therapy and mixed‐reality simulation as remote learning modality for couple and family therapy graduate training programs
Author(s) -
Sampson Jennifer M.,
Hughes Rachel L.,
Wallace Laura B.,
Finley Michelle A.
Publication year - 2021
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/jmft.12494
Subject(s) - experiential learning , modality (human–computer interaction) , family therapy , mixed reality , psychology , internship , medical education , computer science , virtual reality , psychotherapist , medicine , artificial intelligence , pedagogy
In response to COVID‐19, a couple and family therapy (CFT) graduate training program integrated a teaming therapy model with virtual technology using mixed‐reality simulation software. By utilizing teaming therapy‐‐a model with strong roots in systemic theory and practice‐‐ combined with cutting‐edge simulation technology, this distance learning modality provides distinctly relational therapy supervision and training for students at a time when their internships sites are struggling to offer remote clinical services due to the pandemic. This integrative framework offers a high degree of both realism and safety, allowing experiential learning to be appropriately scaffolded for optimum creativity and engagement in an online setting. This paper describes the conceptual, systemic basis for the learning modality, steps for implementation, benefits of the model, and the authors plan for further evaluation.