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Christy--Thanks for explaining more about your training process.  In my
master's program I had a marriage and family therapy class on which our entire
class mirrored the professor's therapy with a husband and wife.  That was an
excellent learning experience.  If you get the chance to mirror another
student, it might be helpful, as an observer, to pick a theoretical perspective
different from what the therapist is using and try to conceptualize the case
from that perspective.  You might keep a journal in which you note what is
working (or not working) in the therapy you observe, while also comparing and
constrasting how the different orientations might view the presumed etiology,
goals for treatment, techniques used, evaluation of change, etc.  I am
currenlty doing practicum work in an inpatient eating disorders unit.  My
supervisor is a psychodynamically oriented psychologist.  The treatment team
for the patient that I am treating includes her cognitive behaviorally oriented
psychiatrist.  It has been a wonderful experience to have the opportunity to
look at the same case from these different perspectives.