Question

[Ann Hale]

There are already dual relationships in just being a trainer.  People pay us a fee to teach them psychodrama, and we also gate keep for the profession, deciding when and whether to endorse people for certification after years of being in mixed roles. To add further to this complexity by adding or swiching group leadership functions needs to be avoided.  Part of being a trainer is engaging the services of a consultant, even having one on retainer to help clear transference on both sides.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: HV Psychodrama 
  To: connie at souldrama.com ; list at grouptalkweb.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:43 PM
  Subject: Re: Question


  I was thinking about your questions. We have had students in our monthly Core training group join our weekly evening Psychodrama group. We have also had people in our Monday evening group decide, after a while, to join our training group. These were professionals who want to use the method in their own work. And it has been, after all, the only psychodrama group in the area, and many of our students want to work on personal issues on a weekly basis. For years many trainers didn't distinguish between therapy groups and training groups...they were all just psychodrama groups, with those people wanting certification collecting hours. That was true in much of my training in NYC.
         However, to take a individual therapy client on as a their primary trainer,,,,that can be an ethical quagmire, partly because of the evaluation process. At HVPI we are very clear that it is very different in terms of people who are in individual  therapy with us. ": It is neither practical nor ethical for us to take our students on as on-going, long-term individual psychotherapy clients" is how we put it in our letters to our students. And although we might welcome an individual private client into an ongoing group that offered training hours, we would not be willing to be their primary or secondary trainer. 
      Hope this is helpful...
  Rebecca
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Connie Miller 
    To: list at grouptalkweb.org 
    Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:19 PM
    Subject: Question


    I was wondering what other trainers do when  a group member wants to join the psychodrama training group. what are your feelings on them being in both?
    Connie


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