Abstract
A practicum program that provides clinical graduate students with special and varied opportunities to gain understanding and develop skills in community settings is a Therapeutic Foster Home Program. The student's role is to serve as consultant to therapeutic foster home parents in the treatment and care of a behaviorally disturbed child placed in their home. Supervisors as well as supervisees can be most effective by understanding the developmental stage of the student therapist as well as the needs, common pitfalls, and possible solutions at that stage. In order to promote optimum therapeutic change, it is also necessary to be aware of the tangled interaction of extratherapy variables unique to a foster home setting and the social systems which can be mobilized and integrated. Community settings with their multiagency complexities are a catalyst for very rapid clinician growth.
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