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Demystification
This
section of forallthat is for articles and material that directly
address how some ideas and practices in the helping professions
can be more straightforwardly described. In fact it is often in
the unpacking of obscure theoretical ideas into what the practitioners
actually do in their work that things get clarified. Just as the
proof of the pudding is in the eating, watch what the cook actually
does not what her recipe, cookbook, or even she herself, says
she does!
The
key idea here is that the more the work of a helping profession
is about things that people generally experience in their everyday
lives - thinking, feeling, imagining, chatting, doing things,
meeting other people - then the more it should be possible to
use more ordinary everyday demystified language to describe it.
So surgeons will need uncommon terminology for their uncommon
job inside people's bodies. Psychologists, social workers and
psychotherapists should not need strange words and they should
be able to link to ideas that ordinary lay people have too. Showing
this can be as simple as applying the constructive gossip and
curiosity you have for your favourite TV soap-opera, or as complex
as a philosophical exercise - sorry!
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