LEARNING TO “THINK SYSTEMS”: FIVE WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
- Vol. 8 (3) , 285-294
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.1982.tb01452.x
Abstract
This paper describes five highly structured writing assignments for teaching family therapy trainees to think in systems terms: 1) Analysis of a communication task; 2) Family assessment report; 3) Family treatment plan; 4) Analysis of a marital or family therapy interview; and 5) Family autobiography. The overall training context in which the assignments are given and ways to prepare students for the assignments are also discussed.Keywords
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