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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.10.1148

Based on their experience in leading continuing education workshops for various mental health workers, the authors recommend the use of experiential learning techniques in such programs to accomplish attitude change, personal involvement, and the development of specific clinical skills. The authors outline elements of design that they feel to be essential to all such training programs, including techniques used in sensitivity groups, and present examples of two possible workshop formats.

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