How to fail in the implementation of a risk assessment scheme or any other new procedure in your organization.

摘要

Forty years ago in this journal, Jay Haley wrote an article entitled "How to Fail as a Psychotherapist." In his article, he outlined the "daily dozen" of what could be construed as sub-optimal psychotherapy practices (e.g., "Insist that the problem which brought the patient into therapy is not important"; "Insist that only years of therapy will really change a patient"; "Avoid the poor because they will insist upon results and cannot be distracted with insightful conversations"; "Avoid evaluating the results of therapy"). The true purpose of Haley's article was, of course, to show that much knowledge exists about strategies for effective, ethical psychotherapy.