You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks: Teaching Research to Family Therapy Trainees.

In spite of frequent calls in the literature for a closer integration of family research and family therapy practice, research continues to have a relatively marginal role in the field. This article argues that although attitudes toward research may he slowly changing, a more fundamental change requires a change in the way that we train family therapists. Introducing research to family therapy trainees from the earliest stokes of their training, when they are most receptive to new ideas, can help to instill a sense of curiosity and benign skepticism and show how clinical and research thinking can form an integral whole. The article describes the development of research teaching in one family therapy training program and stresses the importance of an active involvement of trainees in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]