A supervision approach for teaching structural/strategic therapy in a limited setting.
Many counselors are currently undergoing a Kuhnian paradigm shift from linear models of behavioral problem conceptualization to systemic conceptual models. As a result, it has become incumbent on counselor-educators to introduce the systems concept of family therapy to their students within a framework that renders it meaningful not only intellectually but also practically. This paper presents one way of doing this successfully with master's level counselors-in-training who have no live families on which to practice. An overview of systems approaches to family therapy is presented along with a seven-stage supervision approach for teaching structural/strategic therapy in limited situations where the supervision of live families is not practical or possible.
D002648:Child; D003376:Counseling / Q000193:education; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D013598:Systems Theory