Their home is their castle: learning to do in-home family therapy

Fam Process. 1999 Summer;38(2):229-42. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1999.00229.x.

Abstract

The client's home is emerging as a typical site in which family therapy is delivered, yet training programs tend to train students in an office-based model. This qualitative study examines the process that three student interns went through as they learned to do home-based therapy after having been trained in a clinic setting. All three found that the experience of working in the clients' homes challenged their beliefs about therapy as well as the models of a professional relationship; all reformulated their views on therapy because of this challenge. A model is proposed that describes the students' journey from being a clinic-based to becoming a home-based therapist.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anxiety / psychology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Confidentiality
  • Early Intervention, Educational
  • Family Therapy / education*
  • Family Therapy / methods*
  • Home Care Services / supply & distribution*
  • Humans
  • Learning*