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A method of teaching the psychotherapeutic process to medical students is presented using the format of the clinical case conference. The case conference may be viewed as a process that parallels the psychotherapeutic process with the focus being on teaching and learning rather than therapy. Beginning, middle, and ending issues in the conference, the facilitation of an alliance (learning rather than therapeutic), and the assessment on an ongoing basis of those factors which facilitate and impede the learning process will be presented and conceptualized as they appear both overtly and covertly in the case conference setting and discussed in the perspective of the technique of teaching.
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Krueger, D.W. Teaching the Psychotherapeutic Process to Medical Students: The Case Conference. Acad Psychiatry 4, 141–151 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399763
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