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Experiential Exercises in MFT Training: Gender, Power, and Diversity

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An experiential exercise that is used to empower Marriage and Family Therapy students and systematically introduce students to feminist themes is described. Faculty in the university's theatre department recruit their students to serve as client families. Role-play exercises with theatre students based on vignettes developed by clinical faculty increases realism and includes other training benefits. This approach is consistent with a feminist model of training and supervision.

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  1. Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University, 4380 Palmer Building, Suite 1321, Ames, IA, 50011-4380

    Ronald Jay Werner-Wilson

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Werner-Wilson, R.J. Experiential Exercises in MFT Training: Gender, Power, and Diversity. Contemporary Family Therapy 23, 221–229 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011102420118

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