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Inequality and Therapy
Have you ever heard of the ‘curse of knowledge’? It’s a bias that experts have when communicating with others. Because they have amassed such a large amount of knowledge or experience surrounding a subject, they tend to forget what it was like to be without it – and how to speak to average people about it.
Even mental health practitioners, whose work involves communicating and understanding people, can be guilty of the curse of knowledge bias.
Therapists and other practitioners can sometimes fail to recognize how difficult it can be for the average person to discuss their personal problems or mental health. After all, clients don’t usually speak about this particular topic in their line of work every single day, the way practitioners do.
The imbalance in knowledge, comfort, and experience regarding speaking the language of mental health and human difficulty is one type of inequality that can exist between practitioners and clients.
Inequality in therapy can keep clients from freely expressing themselves. practitioners from understanding the situation fully, and ultimately stall positive outcomes.
At Bower Place, we use bower(note), a unique in-session notes protocol that directly addresses inequality in the citizen-client relationship with the practitioner. In addition to transforming communication between practitioner and client, bower(note) can be adapted to any model, in a therapeutic clinic or community setting.
𝐓𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫(𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, visit our website or send any questions to info@bowerplace.com.au, and we’d be happy to speak with you.
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