Using Critical Incident Journaling to Encourage Cultural Awareness in Doctoral Marriage and Family Therapy Students

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This study explores critical incident journaling as a means to make marriage and family therapy (MFT) students more aware of their own cultures. Subjects were 19 doctoral students, in 2 cohorts, 2 years apart. Each student kept an anonymous daily journal for 6 weeks describing cultural “bumps” that is, discrete events that made him or her aware of his or her own culture and its influence. Open coding of the entries suggested new awareness of personal reactivity in situations involving individuals differing from them in religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, sexuality, and home place. Increased awareness of others' cultures was also reported. This new knowledge often led to action plans.View full textDownload full textKeywordsMFT education, MFT supervision, cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, critical incident, journaling, self of therapistRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08975353.2010.529008