Systems-Centered Training for Therapists: Beyond Stereotyping to Integrating Diversities into the Change Process.

This article highlights the systems-centered approach to training therapists and the particular ways a systems-centered approach is relevant in integrating diversities ij a change process. The systems-centered methods are especially useful in moving beyond stereotyping whether related to gender, race or culture; to exploring the real similarities and differences in people in a way that the differences can be integrated as resources. By introducing theory and methods that create the conditions for lowering personalizing and increasing an understanding of context, therapists-in-training learn to see themselves and their client in context, as well as learn how to develop the contexts in which clients can develop by integrating differences in themselves and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]