Questions about the role of focus and theory
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
-- Yogi Berra
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is
whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
-- Niels Bohr, commenting on a presentation by Heisenberg and Pauli.
- What is the relationship between theory and therapy? How does that influence the kinds of questions we ask and the kinds of interventions we use?
- How might theoretical viewpoint play out in the course of treatment plan development?
- Learn to recognize the focus in therapeutic leads (i.e., client, other, problem, therapist, we, family system, cultural/environmental/contextual).