Inside-out approaches to teaching multicultural techniques: Guidelines for family therapy trainers
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Ellenwood A.E.
Snyders R.
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2006
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Review
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en
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Family therapy; Multicultural; Techniques; Training clinical practice; cultural factor; ecology; education; family counseling; family therapy; human; immigrant; interview; medical student; migration; perception; personal experience; psychotherapist; review; teaching
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Teaching multicultural counseling to students is a challenging endeavor for most instructors. The traditional type of learning is an "Outside-in" approach where students are expected to absorb information in a passive manner. This article introduces some innovative multicultural family therapy teaching approaches that can be employed to create an "Inside-out" approach to learning with prospective family therapists. These approaches imply learning by doing as well as using a self-reflective stance by the therapist. The learning context revolves around personal encounters and experiential processes in the classroom as well as analyzing real life experiences. Instructional approaches include self-reflexive exercises, cultural genograms, ecological maps, role-playing, interviews with actual immigrant families, and elaboration of the immigration odysseys. © 2006 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Journal of Family Psychotherapy
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8975353