title: The professional is political: an interpretation of the problem of the past in solution-focused therapy.
abstract: This paper proposes that therapists subject their work to radical doubt designed to uncover and interpret the micro-politics that in here in professional knowledge and practice. Using Orlie's notion of trespass, the approach to the past employed by solution-focused therapies is examined. These trespasses involve the therapy's silence about the meaning of injustice; its role in relation to social movements; and its potential to reproduce relations of domination. A new conception of ethics is proposed that takes into account the inevitable presence of the political as it fashions the history that conditions us as human beings.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Atkinson College, York University, Toronto.
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authors.lastname: Rossiter
mesh_terms: D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011340:Problem Solving; D011364:Professional Practice; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012924:Social Conditions; D012935:Social Justice