FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Intentionality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3400
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

Chapter 10 focusing the interview: exploring the story from multiple perspectives. Focusing is a skill that enables multiple tellings of the story, and will help you and clients create new possibilities for restorying. Focusing remains the clearest way to 1) stress the importance of the individual and 2) expand awareness of how individual clients develop in social context especially community and family. Focusing will help clearly identify the major areas of conflict and discrepancy that should be approached first. Focusing use selective attention and focus the interview on the client, problem/concern, significant others, a mutual we focus, the interviewer, or the cultural/environmental/contextual issues. You may also want to focus on what is going on in the here and now of the interview: predicted result: clients will focus their conversation or story on the dimensions selected by the interviewer. As the interviewer brings in new focuses, the story is elaborated from multiple perspectives.