Learning Goals – Residential Program

 Based on the content of this program I am able to:

1. Describe a field theory perspective for understanding race, culture and class influence on therapists and patients.
2. Explain how past events influence the current field, and why this is important clinically.
3.  Analyze and assess a patient’s experience and behavior in terms of an organism/environment field.
4. Observe clinical work in which observations take into account the inseparability of person and environment.
5. Practice using a field theory perspective for understanding race, culture and class influence on therapists and patients.
6.  Describe 2 ways in which a field theoretical perspective might inform an ethical stance in clinical practice.
7. Describe how enduring relational themes also represent socio-cultural themes.
8. Compare and contrast “a hermeneutics of suspicion” with “a hermeneutics of trust.
9. Work dialogically with therapeutic disruptions in practice sessions.
10. Describe at least one example of presence in the clinical demonstrations provided.
11. Describe “presence as an ethical aspect of dialogic therapy.
12. Apply a relational gestalt therapy perspective in clinical work.
13. Describe instances in which a dialogic/relational perspective enhances my capacity to explore cultural themes.
14. Describe examples from my own life of cultural elements of my enduring relational themes.
15. Analyze how those preconditions (in the above statement) create and/or limit possibilities for you.
16. Utilize and critique the dialogic approach in my clinical practice.
17. Explain the term, “relationality,” and describe what it means to work from a relational perspective.
18. Critique clinical episodes according to relational theory.
19. Observe similarities between contemporary psychoanalytic and gestalt therapy theory.
20. Describe clinical similarities between contemporary psychoanalytic and gestalt therapy theory.
21. Describe what is meant by clinical generosity/hospitality.
22. Observe what is meant by clinical generosity/ hospitality.
23. Practice what is meant by clinical generosity/ hospitality.
24. Offer an example of how social position affects therapeutic dialogue.
25. Discuss how Levinas’ “after you,” effects clinical dialogue.
26. Discuss how Levinas’ “I am here” (me voici) effects clinical dialogue.
27. Critique an event in which I discussed my social position with my client.
28. Critique an event in which my patient confronted me with limits of awareness based on my social position.
29. Explain what is meant by working with a dialogic attitude.
30. Critique my difficulties in working with a dialogic attitude.
31. List my strengths in working with a dialogic attitude.
32. Describe the Paradoxical Theory of Change as it relates to gestalt therapy. Describe the gestalt therapy concept of awareness.
33. Observe Intersubjective emergence of experience.
34. Practice Intersubjective emergence of experience.
35. Observe mutual, reciprocal, variable influence of therapist and patient on all experience in the therapeutic conversation.
36. Practice mutual, reciprocal, variable influence of therapist and patient on all experience in the therapeutic conversation.