title: Family awareness for nonclinicians: participation in a simulated family as a teaching technique.
abstract: This paper describes a course in family theory geared to "well" family members that combines didactic and experiential teaching techniques. A key feature of the course is that students participate in a simulated family for twelve weeks. Family therapists are skilled at using techniques that powerfully dramatize family process; they can provide a needed and useful service to the community by teaching the dynamics of families functioning to people who have a personal or professional interest in learning more about families.
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D003071:Cognition; D003479:Curriculum; D005190:Family; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D012380:Role