Lois S. Slovik M.D. 1 , James L. Griffith M.D. 2 , Linda Forsythe M.D. 3 , and Alexis Polles M.D. 4 1 Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School 2 George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 3 Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 4 University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS Dr. Griffith, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Residency Training in Psychiatry at The George Washington University Medical Center, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20037. 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.
Redefining the Role of Family Therapy in Psychiatric Residency Education
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Lois S. Slovik M.D. 1 , James L. Griffith M.D. 2 , Linda Forsythe M.D. 3 , and Alexis Polles M.D. 4 1 Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School 2 George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 3 Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 4 University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS Dr. Griffith, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Residency Training in Psychiatry at The George Washington University Medical Center, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20037. 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.Preview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Redefining the Role of Family Therapy in Psychiatric Residency Education
Slovik, Lois S.; Griffith, James L.; Forsythe, Linda; Polles, Alexis
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, Volume 21 (1): 35
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Mar 1, 1997
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