Learning and Conversing LO9046

Rachel Silber (rachel@ontos.com)
Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:25:52 -0400 (EDT)

Replying to LO9025 --

Some time ago, I remember reading that therapists in training
will, as a learning exercise, write down theraputic conversation
as close to "verbatim" as they can, as soon after the conversation
as possible. It seems to me this is a good exercise for working on
dialogue skills, in that
* knowing you're going to write it down from memory
may force closer attention to the conversation, thus helping to
keep automatic conversation habits from kicking in;

* once you do write it down, you have data for analysis
to tell you what went wrong or right in your practice to date.

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Rachel Silber rachel@ontos.com

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