ABSTRACT
As in ice-hockey, so in real life. We have taken shots at most things throughout the previous chapters in this book on the principle that if you don’t shoot you’ll never hit the target, but at the same time we are mindful that many of the shots will inevitably miss. The aims of this final chapter are therefore to draw together the key components of the model we have presented over the previous chapters and to present some of the therapeutic and research implications that result from this framework. One of the key tests for any model is of course its usefulness, whether it ultimately turns out to be true or false. We hope to demonstrate that the SPAARS approach has within it a number of non-trivial implications for therapeutic practice, together with a number of non-trivial research predictions that, we believe, should help to distinguish it from competitor models.
