Integrating Family Therapy Training into Psychiatry Residency Programs: Policy Issues and Alternatives

Sugarman, Stuart

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1984.00023.x

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“…Ganahl et al (1985b) feel there has been an "inflated allegiance to particular schools" of family therapy on the part of family therapy trainees. Because time to present material in depth is often limited and because there is a tendency in academic settings to train students first as generalists, the academic model of family therapy training is likely to provide trainees with an eclectic sampling of various family therapy ideas and practices (Cooper et al, 1981; Sugarman, 1981; 1984). This is in contrast to some family therapy training institutes that teach a more focused and intensive version of family therapy.…”

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“…Although traditional graduate programs now are incorporating family therapy into their curricula, there is often more verbal support given than actual behavioral support (Liddle, 1978). There remains in many programs a resistance to new ways of thinking such as those proposed by systems theory (Sugarman, 1984). Consequently it is still usual for only one or several of the faculty to be family therapists (Cooper et al, 1981).…”

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Training family therapists within an academic setting.

Ribordy¹

1987

Journal of Family Psychology

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Section: Strengths Of the Academic Modelmentioning

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Section: Limitations Of the Academic Modelmentioning

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Training family therapists within an academic setting.

Ribordy¹

1987

Journal of Family Psychology

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On Family Therapy Training in Psychiatric Education: A Recent Trainee's Perspective

Rice

2016

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Family therapy has been labelled a neglected core competency of psychiatric residency training programs. Several models of effective integration into training in both general and child and adolescent psychiatry have been proposed, yet the restraint exhibited in educational guidelines to guide developed family therapy programming results in varied trainee experiences. This perspective piece offers the narrative of a trainee's progression through one educational program that offered a generous elective engagement with family therapy. This piece intends to complement in an original manner the existing literature supporting family therapy training for psychiatric trainees that are usually authored by senior clinicians and/or established proponents of family therapy. The program described in this piece is an American model that entailed mandatory seminar didactics with elective active case involvement and clinical supervision. The author's three‐year engagement with a family consisting of a young man diagnosed with schizophrenia and his mother, who comprised the active case component, is presented with a description of how both the family and the clinician developed through the process. The conclusion comments upon how this work facilitated ongoing work with severely disturbed children and their families upon the trainee's graduation to serve as a unit attending on a child and adolescent psychiatry acute inpatient service. This piece illustrates in a personal narrative the importance of family therapy training to the contemporary graduate and recommends greater immersion for psychiatric trainees in this modality.

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Redefining the Role of Family Therapy in Psychiatric Residency Education

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In order to learn how psychiatry residents use family therapy training from residency in their clinical practices after graduation, the authors interviewed graduates from a large program in the metropolitan Northeast and a small program in the rural South. Graduates from both programs were using family therapy theory and skills to a greater extent than they had anticipated during residency. However, these skills were being used primarily to treat individual patients and to solve clinical and administrative problems in settings other than traditional couple and family therapies. Based on the findings, the authors suggest a restructuring of content and redefinition of role for family therapy training in psychiatry residencies.

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Integrating Family Therapy Training into Psychiatry Residency Programs: Policy Issues and Alternatives

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Training family therapists within an academic setting.

Training family therapists within an academic setting.

On Family Therapy Training in Psychiatric Education: A Recent Trainee's Perspective

Redefining the Role of Family Therapy in Psychiatric Residency Education

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