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Family therapy by default: developing useful fall‐back positions for therapists
Author(s) -
Reimers Sigurd
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2006.00349.x
Subject(s) - novelty , variety (cybernetics) , habit , family therapy , psychology , quality (philosophy) , position (finance) , work (physics) , field (mathematics) , cognitive psychology , computer science , social psychology , epistemology , psychotherapist , artificial intelligence , business , engineering , mathematics , philosophy , mechanical engineering , finance , pure mathematics
This article looks at some of the effects on practitioners of the increasing complexity and variety of ideas within the family therapy field. In adopting the currently popular notion of ‘default position’ from information technology, I argue that therapists can easily feel that their work has a random quality to it. I examine how our own default positions can be based on force of habit, a quest for novelty or the effects of stress. Some suggestions are offered for how we can more accurately go about choosing ideas that will be of help to the families with which we work and to ourselves.