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Journaling is a thread that ties together all aspects of the POTT model. The POTT model then expects students to focus their journals on the use of this self-awareness to actively, positively and purposefully use themselves, with whatever their personal issues, as a therapeutic tool. The grading of journal content deepens to match the student's immersion in the model. The goal is to expose students to experience the dual process of the POTT model. Journaling guidelines for the winter term direct students to connect their signature themes to their clinical work. The purpose of building the clinical example into journals is to enhance students' ability to apply the POTT model actively in their clinical placements. The goal of the journal-grading framework is to spur students to reach the point where they be readily recognize and access what they personally bring to the clinical process, and use it as a mechanism to relate, assess and intervene instinctively in their clinical work.

The authors of this article include the professor and most of the students in a doctoral course on marriage and family therapy ethical and professional issues that met the semester that a disturbed student shot and killed 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty before killing himself. In this article, we reflect through short essays on issues related to the tragedy, ethics, and recovery.