Training family therapists in observational skills

Street, Eddy; Foot, Hugh

doi:10.1046/j.1467-6427.1984.00654.x

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“…In previous studies, perceptual/conceptual skills have been assessed by responses to standardized video segments of role‐playing families (5, 25, 28, 38) and to written case vignettes (5, 16, 41), while ratings of trainees' in‐therapy behavior with a simulated family have provided assessments of executive/intervention skills (6, 13, 29, 31, 43). Personal development has been measured by means of standardized personality inventories (43).…”

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Patterns of Learning in Family Therapy Training

Perlesz¹,

Stolk²,

Firestone

1990

Family Process

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This study presents the results of an evaluation of two cohorts of trainees who had completed a 2-year training program in family therapy. The 15 trainees were assessed in the areas of perceptual/conceptual, intervention/executive skills and personal development both pre- and post-training. Although the group results showed skill acquisition in all areas assessed, the individual results revealed a complexity in performance glossed over by the group analysis. Trainees' learning commenced from different baselines, advanced at different rates, and there was a marked discrepancy between self-reports of improvements (or otherwise) and the results of the observer-rated measures. We recommend that increasing attention be paid to individual differences in learning styles in training and in evaluation.

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Patterns of Learning in Family Therapy Training

Perlesz¹,

Stolk²,

Firestone

1990

Family Process

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“…Much higher levels of observer agreement were achieved by Street and Foot (1984) in preparing a study in which brief videotaped interactions were used as illustrations of various clinical constructs (enmeshment, conflict avoidance) for training purposes. In classifying selected segments of videotapes, 15 experienced family therapists were able to rate consistently (with an average agreement over 80%) seven out of eight categories.…”

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What's Happened to Family Interaction Research? An Historical Account and a Family Systems Viewpoint

Eisler

Dare

Szmukler

1988

J Marital Family Therapy

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The origins and evolution of family interaction research are outlined in order to examine the apparent lag in the field after the initial hopes and enthusiasms of the 1960s. It is argued that family interaction research naturally drew upon the methodology of social psychology and that there was an insufficient integration of the implications of the clinical viewpoint of family systems theory into research procedure. A discussion is presented of some central concepts in scientific psychology, drawing conclusions as to how they can be broadened for the special field of family research. An experimental method for evaluating the public verifiability of complex clinical notions is described, and a number of recent investigations are scrutinized in the light of our critique. It is concluded that there are grounds for being optimistic that the gap between clinical and research thinking can be bridged, making the assessment and refinement of abstract and intricate concepts discovered in clinical procedures accessible to scientific experimentation.

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Training family therapists in observational skills

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Patterns of Learning in Family Therapy Training

Patterns of Learning in Family Therapy Training

What's Happened to Family Interaction Research? An Historical Account and a Family Systems Viewpoint

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