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Commentary: Thoughts about Thoughts

Commentary: Thoughts about Thoughts I believe papers offering first person descriptions of clinical practice and of the process of developing clinical skills are valuable and welcomed by practitioners in the field. Such papers help to remove barriers between novices and supposed experts (who may have forgotten they were once novices themselves), and demonstrate that it's actually not taboo to reveal that we don't know everything and don't always find our work easy, emotionally or intellectually. I think this paper by Hamish Hill achieves these ends. I have had repeated experience of supervising or teaching clinically trained psychologists who find it difficult to overcome the incredible constraints that can be established through years of learning to not think systemically in any true sense. For some, systemic ideas simply don't resonate and aren't of any particular interest; for others, though, there is an intense dissonance created through exposure to a new way of thinking that seems to offer a more promising way of conceptualising, and resolving, presenting problems, but that doesn't fit with what they had previously been taught about people, problems, and therapeutic process. This paper clearly chronicles the evolving transition of one who is in the latter camp, and I think many http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2014 Australian Association of Family Therapy.
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/anzf.1063
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Abstract

I believe papers offering first person descriptions of clinical practice and of the process of developing clinical skills are valuable and welcomed by practitioners in the field. Such papers help to remove barriers between novices and supposed experts (who may have forgotten they were once novices themselves), and demonstrate that it's actually not taboo to reveal that we don't know everything and don't always find our work easy, emotionally or intellectually. I think this paper by Hamish Hill achieves these ends. I have had repeated experience of supervising or teaching clinically trained psychologists who find it difficult to overcome the incredible constraints that can be established through years of learning to not think systemically in any true sense. For some, systemic ideas simply don't resonate and aren't of any particular interest; for others, though, there is an intense dissonance created through exposure to a new way of thinking that seems to offer a more promising way of conceptualising, and resolving, presenting problems, but that doesn't fit with what they had previously been taught about people, problems, and therapeutic process. This paper clearly chronicles the evolving transition of one who is in the latter camp, and I think many

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2014

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