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Apolinar Claudio, Florina Lauriana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Perceived Impact of Person-of-the-Therapist Training (Pott) Model on Drexel University Master of Family Therapy Postgraduates’ Clinical Work: A Grounded Theory Study
    Drexel University, 2016
    Co-Authors: Apolinar Claudio, Florina Lauriana
    Abstract:

    The person-of-the-therapist training (Pott) Model, developed by renowned family therapist Harry Aponte, and implemented in the Drexel University Master of Family Therapy curriculum, was the training Model of focus for the study. Postgraduates of the Drexel University Master of Family Therapy Program were interviewed using grounded theory methods on the perceived impact of person-of-the-therapist training on clinical effectiveness. The generated theory revealed that postgraduates developed a purposeful therapeutic presence; participants believed that their presence, way of being, and the way that they provided therapy, way of doing, had transformed. The stance they had was self-accepting, self-aware, compassionate, empathic, and grounded. Therefore, the therapy they provided was decisive, thoughtful, compassionate, self-aware, and connected-to-self. Although attention to the person or self-of-the-therapist was present in the couple and family therapy literature, research on the effectiveness of person-of-the-therapist training is virtually nonexistent. Thus, the present study addressed this gap in the literature; particularly because the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the field’s primary professional organization, includes person-of-the-therapist elements in established competency standards. Moreover, the marriage and family therapy profession is growing, highlighting the importance of effective training to ensure competent clinical services.Ph.D., Couple and Family Therapy -- Drexel University, 201

Marlene F Watson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Training the Person of the Therapist in an Academic Setting The Person-of-the-Therapist Training Model Theoretical Framework
    2020
    Co-Authors: Harry J Aponte, Marlene F Watson, Frankie Denise Powell, Stephanie Brooks, Cheryl Litzke, John Lawless, Eric Johnson
    Abstract:

    The Pott Model calls for mastery of self to meet the personal challenges clients present to us in both the technical venue and the therapeutic relationship. The Model proffers three basic goals of the training. First, in order to be able to achieve this personal mastery in the professional context of therapy, therapists must know themselves, particularly the dominant personal challengespsychological, cultural, and spiritual-that mark their lives, along with the history and current status of their struggle with these life themes. Models for the use of self normally focus almost exclusively on the emotional aspects of therapists' lives. The Pott Model also lends weight to therapists' culture, values, and spirituality, which are as vital as their psychology in forming their outlooks toward life and its challenges. Second, clinicians must have the ability to observe, have access to, and exercise judgment about the emotions, memories, and behaviors that spring from their own personal themes while in the actual drama of the therapeutic process. Third, they must be able to manage their own person, with all the emotional, cultural, and spiritual forces operating in them, actively and purposely in line with their therapeutic goals. This last implies the ability of therapists to utilize their personal life history and inner emotional experiences to both identify with and differentiate themselves from their clients. Therapists must be able to recognize the common elements of the human experience in their clients' life-struggles to the point of being able to track clients' personal journeys through a conscious connection with their own personal journeys. Therapists must also be so grounded in their own life's pilgrimage that they do not so embroil themselves in their clients' affective churnings that they lose the emotional distance necessary to see, and consequently challenge their clients in their reality. The predecessors of the Pott Model focused primarily on self-improvement. Satir spoke of Freud's requirement of a didactic analysis for trainees as a way of preventing therapists from harming patients. Her goal was "the positive use of self [in order to] be of positive value in treatment" (Satir, 2000, p. 26). For her, this meant "becoming a more integrated self" in order to be "able to make greater contact with the other person [the client]" (p. 24). In contrast, Pott lends greater emphasis to training on how to use the self in the clinical context, than on how therapists achieve a certain level of personal growth and resolution as a precondition to an effective use of self

  • perceived impact of the person of the therapist training Model on drexel university master of family therapy postgraduates clinical work
    Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 2018
    Co-Authors: Florina Apolinar L Claudio, Marlene F Watson
    Abstract:

    The Person-of-the-Therapist Training (Pott) Model, developed by Harry J. Aponte, teaches trainees to intentionally and productively use all aspects of themselves for clinical effectiveness....

Florina Apolinar L Claudio - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Eric Johnson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Training the Person of the Therapist in an Academic Setting The Person-of-the-Therapist Training Model Theoretical Framework
    2020
    Co-Authors: Harry J Aponte, Marlene F Watson, Frankie Denise Powell, Stephanie Brooks, Cheryl Litzke, John Lawless, Eric Johnson
    Abstract:

    The Pott Model calls for mastery of self to meet the personal challenges clients present to us in both the technical venue and the therapeutic relationship. The Model proffers three basic goals of the training. First, in order to be able to achieve this personal mastery in the professional context of therapy, therapists must know themselves, particularly the dominant personal challengespsychological, cultural, and spiritual-that mark their lives, along with the history and current status of their struggle with these life themes. Models for the use of self normally focus almost exclusively on the emotional aspects of therapists' lives. The Pott Model also lends weight to therapists' culture, values, and spirituality, which are as vital as their psychology in forming their outlooks toward life and its challenges. Second, clinicians must have the ability to observe, have access to, and exercise judgment about the emotions, memories, and behaviors that spring from their own personal themes while in the actual drama of the therapeutic process. Third, they must be able to manage their own person, with all the emotional, cultural, and spiritual forces operating in them, actively and purposely in line with their therapeutic goals. This last implies the ability of therapists to utilize their personal life history and inner emotional experiences to both identify with and differentiate themselves from their clients. Therapists must be able to recognize the common elements of the human experience in their clients' life-struggles to the point of being able to track clients' personal journeys through a conscious connection with their own personal journeys. Therapists must also be so grounded in their own life's pilgrimage that they do not so embroil themselves in their clients' affective churnings that they lose the emotional distance necessary to see, and consequently challenge their clients in their reality. The predecessors of the Pott Model focused primarily on self-improvement. Satir spoke of Freud's requirement of a didactic analysis for trainees as a way of preventing therapists from harming patients. Her goal was "the positive use of self [in order to] be of positive value in treatment" (Satir, 2000, p. 26). For her, this meant "becoming a more integrated self" in order to be "able to make greater contact with the other person [the client]" (p. 24). In contrast, Pott lends greater emphasis to training on how to use the self in the clinical context, than on how therapists achieve a certain level of personal growth and resolution as a precondition to an effective use of self

Harry J Aponte - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Training the Person of the Therapist in an Academic Setting The Person-of-the-Therapist Training Model Theoretical Framework
    2020
    Co-Authors: Harry J Aponte, Marlene F Watson, Frankie Denise Powell, Stephanie Brooks, Cheryl Litzke, John Lawless, Eric Johnson
    Abstract:

    The Pott Model calls for mastery of self to meet the personal challenges clients present to us in both the technical venue and the therapeutic relationship. The Model proffers three basic goals of the training. First, in order to be able to achieve this personal mastery in the professional context of therapy, therapists must know themselves, particularly the dominant personal challengespsychological, cultural, and spiritual-that mark their lives, along with the history and current status of their struggle with these life themes. Models for the use of self normally focus almost exclusively on the emotional aspects of therapists' lives. The Pott Model also lends weight to therapists' culture, values, and spirituality, which are as vital as their psychology in forming their outlooks toward life and its challenges. Second, clinicians must have the ability to observe, have access to, and exercise judgment about the emotions, memories, and behaviors that spring from their own personal themes while in the actual drama of the therapeutic process. Third, they must be able to manage their own person, with all the emotional, cultural, and spiritual forces operating in them, actively and purposely in line with their therapeutic goals. This last implies the ability of therapists to utilize their personal life history and inner emotional experiences to both identify with and differentiate themselves from their clients. Therapists must be able to recognize the common elements of the human experience in their clients' life-struggles to the point of being able to track clients' personal journeys through a conscious connection with their own personal journeys. Therapists must also be so grounded in their own life's pilgrimage that they do not so embroil themselves in their clients' affective churnings that they lose the emotional distance necessary to see, and consequently challenge their clients in their reality. The predecessors of the Pott Model focused primarily on self-improvement. Satir spoke of Freud's requirement of a didactic analysis for trainees as a way of preventing therapists from harming patients. Her goal was "the positive use of self [in order to] be of positive value in treatment" (Satir, 2000, p. 26). For her, this meant "becoming a more integrated self" in order to be "able to make greater contact with the other person [the client]" (p. 24). In contrast, Pott lends greater emphasis to training on how to use the self in the clinical context, than on how therapists achieve a certain level of personal growth and resolution as a precondition to an effective use of self