Sexual Attitude Reassessment · Reflective Exercise

Reverse the Configuration

Four clinical situations, each presented twice with one feature reversed, and your own commitment recorded before the reversal is visible.

What this exercise does

The reflective questions in this section ask whether your response would be the same if the configuration were reversed. Asked that way, every clinician answers yes. This exercise asks it the only way that produces information, by taking your answer first and reversing the case afterwards.

Two of the four reversals catch scrutiny applied to a category. Two catch scrutiny withheld because applying it felt like judgement. If only one half is uncomfortable, that is the finding.

Estimated time to complete this exercise: 35 minutes

1The age gap
2The work
3The pace
4Who is sexual
5The pattern
6Close

Before you begin

How this one works

Four clinical situations. In each one you commit to an approach, and then the same situation is presented again with one feature reversed, next to what you wrote the first time.
Which version you see first is randomised, so your colleagues are not doing the same exercise as you and comparing answers afterwards will not work the way it usually does.
The reversal is invisible until it happens. That is the only way this question can be asked, because every clinician answers yes when asked in the abstract whether they would respond the same way.
Two of the four reversals catch an error in the permissive direction and two catch it in the restrictive direction. If only one half of this exercise is uncomfortable, that is the finding.

Nothing is graded and nothing you type leaves your browser. There is no submission, reloading discards everything, and you can copy your own record at the end.

References

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