ABSTRACT
The “software support” beautifully serves the life formulation model and enhances its benefits. The idea of software support may prove fanciful: for one thing, most of the orientations in question probably aren’t coherent or consistent enough to be programmed. The life formulation model, whether software supported or not, would go a long way toward providing a human experience specialist, or any practitioner looking to free herself from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual model or some other model. In this life formulation model, a practitioner would describe her relationship with the person she is seeing in six ways. These are the person’s expressed concerns; the person’s circumstances of note; the person’s behavioral and emotional considerations; the person’s challenges as inferred by the provider; the provider’s concerns; and the provider’s recommendations. The life formulation model is one such sensible model.
