TEACHING THE PRINCIPLES OF AMBULANT PSYCHOTHERAPY
C. H. HARDIN BRANCH M. D., and
JOY W. ELY M. D.1
1 Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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.
