‘Tell us what we need to know to do this!’ Preparing a path to safe uncertainty in assignment writing on a family therapy foundation course

Abstract

This article describes a single session aimed at helping participants on a family therapy foundation course to move from a position of anxiety and discomfort about completing a written assignment to a position of safe uncertainty. Evaluation from the perspectives of course participants, course facilitators and assignment markers has shown participants engaging more enthusiastically with the writing of the assignment and expressing less anxiety about the process.

Thematic review of family therapy journals 2010

“…The Journal of Family Therapy included a series of important articles on training covering issues such as self‐supervision (Simon, ), self‐appraisal (Bond, ), supporting family therapy trainees in assignment writing (Hopkins et al, ), trainee evaluation (Angell et al ., ; Tseliou, ) and supervisor training (Mason, ). The extensiveness of family‐oriented training in family therapy training programmes, core competencies in family therapy and doctoral family therapy training were some of the important training issues covered in the international family therapy journals in 2010.…”