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Structured Methods and Striking Moments: Using Question Sequences in “Living” Ways
Author(s) -
Lowe Roger
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00042.x
Subject(s) - improvisation , narrative , strict constructionism , epistemology , value (mathematics) , style (visual arts) , psychology , social constructionism , elaboration , sociology , psychotherapist , computer science , linguistics , literature , philosophy , art , machine learning , visual arts , humanities
This article draws together two seemingly incompatible practices in social constructionist therapies: the use of structured questioning methods (associated with solution‐focused and narrative therapies) and the poetic elaboration of “striking moments” (associated with conversational therapies). To what extent can we value and use both styles of practice? Beginning with practitioners' concerns about the use of structured question sequences, I explore possibilities for resituating these methods in different conceptual and metaphorical frames, selectively drawing on ideas from the philosophy of striking moments. The aim is not to reduce one therapeutic style to another, but to encourage the teaching and practice of structured methods in more creative, improvisational, and “living” ways.