Sheila McNamee vom Department of Communication an der University of Hampshire ist eine führende Vertreterin des Sozialen Konstruktionismus und in Deutschland vor allem durch ihre Kooperation mit Klaus G. Deissler bekannt. Zum Buch„Furthering Talk. Advances in the discursive therapies“ (New York 2004), das von Thomas Strong und David Pare herausgegeben wurde, steuerte sie einen Beitrag„THERAPY AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION. Back to Basics and Forward toward Challenging Issues“ bei, der auch auf ihrer Website heruntergeladen werden kann. In der Einleitung des 28seitigen Papers schreibt sie:„Perhaps the most useful way to enter into the conversation about discursive therapies is to address what I see as a central issue that we must confront as spokespersons of therapy as social construction: What does it mean to approach therapeutic practice from a constructionist stance? What do we do, as therapists, once we propose that meaning emerges in the on-going flow of persons in situated activity? This concern gives rise to a related issue which I will touch upon as an exciting and vitally important direction in which we must now move: how do we assess or evaluate our therapeutic practice if meaning is understood as a local achievement? This question emerges as we confront both the continuing conversation around therapeutic practice and its relation to a constructionist orientation1 (e.g., this volume stands as one illustration). Our discussions might be well focused on appreciating conversations that challenge us to articulate what we mean when we talk of therapeutic practice as social construction“
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