Therapy as Social Construction

ISBN: 9780803983038 出版年：1992 页码：233 SAGE Publications Ltd

Perhaps the most useful way to enter into the conversation about discursive therapies is to address what I see as a central issue that we must confront as spokespersons of therapy as social construction: What does it mean to approach therapeutic practice from a constructionist stance? What do we do, as therapists, once we propose that meaning emerges in the on-going flow of persons in situated activity? This concern gives rise to a related issue which I will touch upon as an exciting and vitally important direction in which we must now move: how do we assess or evaluate our therapeutic practice if meaning is understood as a local achievement? This question emerges as we confront both the continuing conversation around therapeutic practice and its relation to a constructionist orientation (e.g., this volume stands as one illustration). Our discussions might be well focused on appreciating conversations that challenge us to articulate what we mean when we talk of therapeutic practice as social construction.