We clinicians have read about theories that guide our therapeutic modalities. We come to know how mind and behavior operate in situations and conflicts through theories. We keep applying those ideas and techniques to ourselves. This is all because we know technicalities from an expert's perspective.
But explaining things to clients, where we do not expect that they would also think like us or would start believing like we do, during the course of therapy is a daunting task as one never knows what the 'belief system' of the client is and how much access the client has to the process of change. So how can a clinician apply theoretical knowledge to practice so that the client gets the required benefits? Should there be an expectation that the more the client comes to understand a theoretical standpoint, the more he/she will be able to apply techniques? How can the clinician impart this knowledge, how much of it should be given as an individual matter, and how much depends on the skill of the clinician?
There is a difference between physical clinician and mental/behavioral clinician. The former one are more scientific in their work as in field of science for every concept such as motion,force,physiological activities,atomic structure we have one theory at a time and when other theory is proposed it is a modification of earlier one. But later group of clinician must have creative and artistic approach while rendering their services as they have to deal with human behavior which varies from individual to individual and in field of psychology and other social sciences also there are multiple of theories for single concept and all are existing together for instance personality we have different theories over it and all have significance. Theories in the field of psychology tell us about the broad range of human behavior we need to have knowledge of all. Now i'll come to your question we psychologist are not there to make our clients to think like we do, our work is to understand their thinking pattern, they do not tell us about their belief system it is our work to get idea what is their belief system if they know by their own why will they come to us. So after geting idea about their thinking pattern we choose the theory and applied it for solving their problem. for e.g if a client do not believe in reward and punishment behavior therapy will not work with him but again it is our work to explain its perspectives to them, here i want to share my experience one day a client come to me with behavioral problem of his child I explained them token economy approach a very good behavioral modification technique for children in which you give some award to your child for good act that person refused to do so by saying he will get addicted to prizes then i replied you get incentives in your office for good work so it should also be stopped then he realizes and got agree over that.
I think that it very much depend on clinician skill such as empathy, unconditional positive regard etc as profession of behavioral clinician is an art along with science.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Himani_Goyal/ your answer is right at some points but not fully right. i hope. Psychology is a science which have clear evidence based practices. it is not the skill of psychologist or duty of the psychologist to teach or explain to client various perspective, rather psychological theories are the ways which people usually think and act.... each therapy have their on principles to explain these human behavior and majority of the therapies practiced by clinical psychologist are evidence based as of now and others are in the process of validation. therapist works based on these various theoretical background to understand patients problem leading to a formulation of diagnosis which is later implemented as therapy. patients readiness to participate in the therapy dependent on his/her psychological mindedness. clinical psychologist role is rather to reduce the distress as well as leading to personal growth in broader sense. this can be achieved by following the principles of therapy . for eg. "joining" is one process used to initiate family therapy in structural family therapy. joining to is done by certain techniques such as greeting the client, modulation of sounds, as well as using the same tone and slang that patient is familiar with or using it at point of initial interview. So in each stage of therapy there are process as well as technique that help to move forward according to the theoretical perspective. there are guidelines as well as therapy manuals even though not much popular in India which give clear instruction like any other protocol of treatment. Same way NICE guidelines give evidence based therapies for each psychiatry conditions. Nice guidelines are available free of cost in their website... www.nice.org.uk/. CLINICAL SKILLS dependence of once professional training, theoretical background, passion towards service profession as well as experience.... u can call this as ART or SCIENCE....
Keep doing what your theory tells you and keep modulating your theory based on the lessons from the practice. In management, there are very few absolute theories.
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