Sexual Attitude Reassessment · Reflective Exercise

The Size of the Reaction

The only exercise in this chapter with no client in it. The attitude under reassessment is your relationship to your own expertise.

The case this is built on

An experienced clinician known for a model they teach and supervise in is brought research by a trainee that challenges it. Their first two responses are reasonable, and the size of their reaction is not.

This exercise does not argue that any model is wrong and will not ask you to give one up. It is about the size of a reaction relative to the size of a question.

Estimated time to complete this exercise: 25 minutes

1Your model
2Calibration
3The defences
4The cost
5Forward
6Close

Before you begin

How this one works

Nothing is graded and nothing you type leaves your browser. There is no submission, reloading discards it, and you can copy your own responses at the end.
This is the only exercise in the chapter with no client in it. The attitude under reassessment is your relationship to your own expertise, which is harder to look at than a reaction to someone else’s sexuality.
The exercise does not argue that any model is wrong and it will not ask you to give one up. It is about the size of a reaction relative to the size of a question.
It works best if you have something to lose. If you are early in your career and have not yet built anything, answer as the practitioner you expect to become.

Of the reflective exercises in this chapter, this is the one clinicians most often finish and then quietly decide was about somebody else.

References

  1. Munder, T., Brütsch, O., Leonhart, R., Gerger, H., & Barth, J. (2013). Researcher allegiance in psychotherapy outcome research: An overview of reviews. Clinical Psychology Review, 33, 501–515.