The Person-of-the-Therapist Training (POTT) is a program designed to facilitate clinicians' ability to consciously and purposefully use themselves at the moment of contact with their clients in order to connect, assess, and intervene effectively. This qualitative study explored the experiences of 54 master's-level students who were enrolled in an accredited marriage and family therapy program in the United States and examined their perceived professional gains following a 9-month POTT course. Content analysis of trainees' reflections which they wrote at the end of the training revealed 6 primary themes: (a) increased awareness, (b) emotions, (c) improved clinical work, (d) humanity and woundedness, (e) meta-awareness, and (f) factors that contributed to the learning process. Findings suggest that key outcomes of this training curriculum are congruent with its stated goals. Clinical and training recommendations are additionally provided. Video Abstract.

Social media has become prominent in the lives of many adolescents. This article addresses the intersection of social media sites and narrative therapy in treating substance use in urban African American adolescents. Risk factors of substance use in urban African American adolescents will be discussed, along with highlighting the importance of addressing issues around race, gender, and class in therapy, through a sociocultural lens. A case vignette is presented to demonstrate how narrative therapy techniques can be used to address therapy goals, specifically utilizing Facebook as an intervention tool to make progress in treatment.

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