Efficient – Social – Evidence-Based
A growing range of health professionals are being called on to use behavioral counseling and psychotherapy approaches. However, most training in these approaches provides knowledge but not ability. They do not help you build mastery in actually USING the techniques.
Reflective Training (RT) is based on research showing that the best way to build practice mastery in therapy techniques is through strategic practice that is based on objective, performance-based feedback and opportunities for peer-to-peer consultation.
- – Motivational Interviewing
- – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- – Crisis Response Planning (suicide risk assessment & safety planning)
- – Crisis Counseling (Living Room model)
- – Reflective Psychotherapy
- – Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- – Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- – Solution-focused Therapy
- – Social Cognition & Interaction Training (SCIT)
How Reflective Training Works
RT is practice-based learning, which means that it does not teach you the concepts of counseling but rather helps you practice applying concepts that you have learned from outside reading or lecture.
RT integrates three evidence-based forms of learning: behavioral skill practice, feedback on practice, and discussion to integrate practice and concepts.
You start by familiarizing yourself with our Feedback Form and completing an initial roleplay. Your assigned coach will view your roleplay and give you feedback suggestions for training. After that, you will join peer training sessions at your convenience through our Calendar. We suggest you attend a session at least every one to two weeks to keep momentum.
RT can be hard to wrap your mind around at first, so one of our coaches will give you as much guidance as you need. A coach is a real person, like a teaching assistant who is a co-learner with expertise in the RT model. They have completed at least one course of RT and are still actively training within the model.
PRACTICE
In RT, practice means either doing a roleplay with a coach or fellow learner and uploading it into our video library OR doing an exercise with other learners during a training session.
FEEDBACK
View a roleplay from the Video Library and complete a 10-min Feedback Form. Review Feedback Forms others have completed on your practice.
INTEGRATION
Meet with your coach and other learners to review concepts in your Training Area and discuss application. If your basic knowledge feels shaky, this is the time to review the concepts and procedures of the approach you are studying.
How to get started
Click Sign-up at the upper right. Pick the Training Area that you want to practice.
You will land on your Dashboard page. Click on More Info to review the learning materials for your chosen Training Area. If you want to join more Training Areas, go to My Account > Edit Profile, and add as many as you want.
Next, connect with a coach and get rolling. If you already have a coach, email them and say you are ready start. If you do not have a coach, join a General session from the Calendar or shoot us a message using the form below and we will have a coach reach out to you.
The Reflective Training Network
The Reflective Training Network is a non-profit service of the Division of Community Recovery, Rehabilitation and Training (CRRT) in the UT Health San Antonio Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry. RT is provided free of cost to all UT-affiliated learners and learners who sign up without institutional affiliation.
You may join as many Training Areas as you wish through this website. Membership is free of charge. You are an “Active Member” as long as you have participated in any RT learning activity within the past two months. You can reactivate yourself at any time by getting involved. Please see our Research section for information on how the Reflective Training Network uses feedback data and how you can get involved.
If you join with a class or other cohort, you will follow that group’s structured training curriculum. If you join on your own, you may elect to follow a curriculum or to follow your own schedule. In either scenario, you are eligible to receive Continuing Education. See the CEU page for more info.
