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Learning symbolic-experiential therapy: One approach

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This paper is intended to serve as a stimulus to the thinking of students regarding ways in which they might better organize their symbolic training experiences. It illustrates how one supervisee derived a conceptual framework from the literature that made it easier to track process events and organize her training experiences. The authors believe it is important to discover ways to facilitate the learning process without operationalizing the approach.

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  1. Department of Child Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

    Tammy Mitten MA (doctoral student in the family therapy doctoral program) & Fred P. Piercy PhD

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director of training and research and professor of family therapy in the same department.

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Mitten, T., Piercy, F.P. Learning symbolic-experiential therapy: One approach. Contemp Fam Ther 15, 149–168 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00892453

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