Training the person of the therapist in an academic setting.
Drexel University's Couple and Family Therapy Department recently introduced a formal course on training the person of a therapist. The course is based on Aponte's Person-of-the-Therapist Training Model that up until now has only been applied in private, nonacademic institutes with postgraduate therapists. The model attempts to put into practice a philosophy that views the full person of therapists, and their personal vulnerabilities in particular, as the central tool through which therapists do their work in the context of the client-therapist relationship. This article offers a description of how this model has been tested with a group of volunteer students, and subsequently what had to be considered to formally structure the training into the Drexel curriculum.
Drexel University, USA. harryjaponte@verizon.net
Harry J
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Aponte
Frankie Denise
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Powell
Stephanie
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Brooks
Marlene F
MF
Watson
Cheryl
C
Litzke
John
J
Lawless
Eric
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Johnson
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