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This paper presents the results of 15 years of detailed examination of the individual and group psychotherapeutic interview. Out of this study has evolved a systematic formulation for teaching skills of therapy in a 45-hour training program. Students in this program are able to engage in wide ranging therapeutic interventions such as psychodynamic dream analysis, assertion training, and rational-emotive therapy. The program is described as metatheoretical in orientation as basic dimensions underlying all therapeutic approaches are taught. A brief summary of major premises and assumptions of this metatheoretical approach is included.
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Ivey, A.E. (1982). Microskills and Metatheory: A Systematic Formulation for Teaching Individual and Group Psychotherapeutic Skills. In: Pines, M., Rafaelsen, L. (eds) The Individual and the Group. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8154-9_33
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