The author describes a comprehensive four-year educational program for
training psychiatric residents in marital and family therapy. Residents
receive an average of 70 hours of didactic instruction and 175 hours of
one-on-one supervision in family therapy; they conduct approximately 500
hours of family and marital therapy with 75--85 outpatient and inpatient
families. The author identifies faculty and resident resistance to an
additional theoretical model and the major involvement of nonphysician
faculty but stresses that residents now have the opportunity to truly
understand and implement a biopsychosocial model and that psychiatrists
must increase their experience in specialized therapeutic modalities to
remain clinical leaders.Abstract Teaser