1972
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1972.00147.x
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The Paraprofessional and Family Therapy

Abstract: The new career movement in the community mental health field will increasingly demand that training programs provide the paraprofessional with a clinical role that avoids the temporary and mostly erroneous advantages of being an “indigenous” worker. Clinical functions taught in training need to be related to the problems of the urban poor; it is this group that needs a concept of service that can combine management of reality with beneficial restructuring of psychological systems. The resulting role is that of… Show more

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“…As with the health associate wh0 assists the doctor, or the paralegal person who aids the lawyer, the therapist needs to make use of the new mental health workers, Cohen (1974) felt that these new careerists, with only their associate degrees, could serve as a guide and consultant to the professional, who may have the clinical skills, but limited knowledge of minority experiences. Umbarger (1972) sees the new eateer movement as providing (1) a clinical function neeäed to relate to minoHty groups, (2) a therapeutic role that ma), often funetion autonomously, while (3) providing vocational mobUity ihr the lay practitioners. The use of new cateerists may help break down the resistanee to therapy that is offen found in Black and other ethnie groups.…”
Section: A Review Of the Literatre Related To Fanfilymentioning
confidence: 98%
“…As with the health associate wh0 assists the doctor, or the paralegal person who aids the lawyer, the therapist needs to make use of the new mental health workers, Cohen (1974) felt that these new careerists, with only their associate degrees, could serve as a guide and consultant to the professional, who may have the clinical skills, but limited knowledge of minority experiences. Umbarger (1972) sees the new eateer movement as providing (1) a clinical function neeäed to relate to minoHty groups, (2) a therapeutic role that ma), often funetion autonomously, while (3) providing vocational mobUity ihr the lay practitioners. The use of new cateerists may help break down the resistanee to therapy that is offen found in Black and other ethnie groups.…”
Section: A Review Of the Literatre Related To Fanfilymentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Historically, limitations have been placed upon the role autonomy of paraprofessionals (50), despite their ability to undertake responsibilities that resemble and overlap professional tasks such as those of the social worker (1). The negative definition of their identity in terms of what they are not (“nonprofessionals”) maintains ambiguity and fails to specify what they are capable of doing (43).…”
Section: The Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This approach is concerned with how people manage psychological, as well as concrete, issues of daily living with one another at home and in their community (30, 34, 37, 50). Ecological family therapists are more than just client advocates.…”
Section: The Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In the June issue of Family Process , Umbarger (10) discusses an ecological approach to family therapy focused on the poor. The approach is one that deals with reality problems as an integral part of the psychological treatment process.…”
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confidence: 99%