Unanswered Questions

Published November 24, 2003 Updated 23 April 2014th

If you ever been in therapy, you may have noticed that your therapist asked many questions unanswered waves. This is characteristic of therapy, in fact, which became a source of humor in popular culture. The Bob Newhart famous question - "How would you feel?" - It has to mock a standard method of treatment.

Why therapists? Is it really worth vague and evasive?

Most therapists are trained to ask open-ended questions. It is a way for the customer to share about everything that is important to them to speak, and encourage them important documents. Consider the following sentences:

1 Have you had a good relationship with your parents?

2 tell me. Concerning your relationship with your parents

The cover material is the same, but the likely reactions are very different. Number one is a closed question. The expected answer is "yes" or "no." When a therapist asks this question and get one of these answers, then the ball is back in the therapist's field in order to promote a more complete answer. A customer may choose to say something else, but often not.

Number two and encourages the client to explore the problem. A therapist will receive more information in this way, and the session seems less like an interrogation.

There is another important difference between the two sets. Number one is a major issue. He introduced the idea of "good" customer awareness. Not a particularly disturbing example of a loaded question, but keep in mind a question like: "Your father sexual assault" avoid therapists often that issues such as.

This principle can be obtained by anyone who tries to use to get a conversation. If you, someone to talk to, you do not know very well, let them open questions. If you think a question "yes or no", see if you are a more open design. Have the open version. The call is probably easier to move.