CRM 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Jay Haley, Empiricism
3 Apr 2017
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Constructivism in opposition to empiricism, positivism, realism, etc. Rejection of idea of therapist as expert, objective, detached entity. From a constructivist perspective, therapy involves the construction of myths or. Empiricism basically says that concepts should be based on fact. Positivism basically says that we can capture the world around us. Constructivism on the other hand basically states that we relate to things not in material ways but rather in symbolic ways. We relate to things that are meaningful to us so symbolic. Constructivism is how people construct themselves, the people around them and the world and how they relate to each other. Constructivism also says that the counselor is never neutral. Its not just the client constructing everything, it is you too, you both construct. You can try to be objective but you"re never fully objective, or a detached entity, you"re very much involved. What you see may not be what is actually there.
