The professional is political: An interpretation of the problem of the past in solution-focused therapy

Journal/Book: Amer J Orthopsychiat. 2000; 70: 330 Seventh Ave, 18Th FL, New York, NY 10001, USA. Amer Orthopsychiatric Assoc. 150-161.

Abstract: This paper proposes that therapists subject their work to radical doubt designed to uncover and interpret the micropolitics that inhere in professional knowledge and practice, Using Orlie's notion of trespass, the approach to the past employed by solution-focused therapies is examined. These trespasses involve the therapy's silence about the meaning of injustice; its role in relation to social movements; and ifs potential to reproduce relations of domination. A ne-ru conception of ethics is proposed that takes into account flu! inevitable presence of the political as it fashions the history that conditions us as human beings.

Note: Article Rossiter A, York Univ, Atkinson Coll, Sch Social Work, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, CANADA

Keyword(s): ETHICS

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