I worked for 13 months at an agency that used the family teaching model on staff.  It was distressing to me.  Does anyone out there have any feelings they would like to share about this?  I was told that agencies that use teaching family model also use it on staff.  Anyone feel it is beneficial or, like me, that it is detrimental, at least to some staff?  I am a therapist and feel it is not a good idea to use this model on staff.  Is there any research on this?  Getting put onto tantrum especially on the email and getting what I regarded as big lectures, only scared me and created a lot of anxiety, which was detrimental to my job performance.

I have heard various staff use the model from the praise to the teaching to the rationale and on when speaking to staff they are parallel with or with staff they supervise.  I think the model is highly effective, but when I am speaking with a colleague or supervisor I would like "real talk" vs being spoken to in the model. A softened approach would at least be easier to hear. I would struggle to listen if I felt like I was being spoken to as a consumer in need of change.