Family Therapy Inside Out

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  • RORY REMER Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12926/wkce0050

Keywords:

Family

Abstract

Sociometry-including psychodrama, social atom theory, and role theory-by its very nature is the perfect vehicle for teaching family therapy. The content to which it usually relates, the techniques it provides, and the control and flexibility it offers in producing real and vicarious experiences weds the psychodrama component, in particular, to family dynamics. A simulation of family interaction and family therapy used in teaching the Theory and Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy course in the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Kentucky is described in this article. The author offers suggestions, based on evaluation data, for structuring family simulations.

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2025-03-14

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Vol. 43 No. 2 (1990): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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