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Interventive interviewing: Part III. Intending to ask lineal, circular, strategic, or reflexive questions?
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Family Process
|March 1, 1988
Summary
Therapist questions, driven by intent and assumptions, can be categorized into four groups. Understanding these question types, based on lineal or circular assumptions, aids therapeutic change and research into interviewing styles.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Psychotherapy
- Clinical Psychology
Background:
- Therapeutic questions carry inherent intent and assumptions.
- Questions serve to orient therapists or provoke client change.
- Assumptions underlying questions can be lineal or circular.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the intents and assumptions behind therapists' questions.
- To differentiate between various types of therapeutic questions.
- To offer a framework for classifying therapeutic questions.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of question intents and underlying assumptions in therapy.
- Development of a framework to categorize therapeutic questions.
- Exploration of lineal versus circular assumptions in questioning.
Main Results:
- Identified four major groups of therapeutic questions.
- Demonstrated that question types have dissimilar effects.
- Highlighted the importance of assumptions in therapeutic questioning.
Conclusions:
- A framework for distinguishing question types can guide therapist decision-making.
- This framework can aid researchers in studying interviewing styles.
- Recognizing question assumptions is crucial for effective psychotherapy.