TEACHING THE PRINCIPLES OF AMBULANT PSYCHOTHERAPY

In summary, the teaching of the principles of ambulant psychotherapy depends upon the development in the trainee of sufficient personal security to facilitate a helpful relationship to the patient and sufficient sophistication to promote adequate communication. These goals can be achieved if the staff has broad clinical experience, can provide a broad spectrum of psychodynamic theory and insists that the trainee is confronted by a range of patient material beginning with persons culturally similar to himself and extending from this beginning to as wide a cultural range as the situation will permit.