CAHSS Faculty Articles
Title
Inferring the Relational System: Interactional Therapy within a Constructivist Paradigm
Department
Department of Family Therapy
Publication Date
1989
Publication Title
Family Therapy: The Journal of the California Graduate School of Family Psychology
ISSN
0091-6544
Volume
16
Issue/No.
2
First Page
99
Last Page
111
Abstract
This paper describes and demonstrates the application of constructivist concepts to interactional therapy. The usefulness of a constructivist paradigm when working with an individual client is noted, and the interactional patterns of the relevant system members are shown to be inferred. Additionally, the use of "constructivist questions" to manage the client's "reality" is presented. A constructivist framework is shown to provide a unique and useful orientation for the conceptualization of interactional therapy with an individual client.
NSUWorks Citation
Green, S. K., & Brown-Standridge, M. D. (1989). Inferring the Relational System: Interactional Therapy within a Constructivist Paradigm. Family Therapy: The Journal of the California Graduate School of Family Psychology, 16 (2), 99-111. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles/609