ABSTRACT
The Clinical Exchange was designed to foster open inquiry and trans-theoretical dialogue in terms of actual psychotherapy cases. There are several interesting illustrations of the use of multi-theory reflecting teams. Koopmans involved field interns in weekly reflecting teams and gave those opportunities to observe family therapists using and talking about varying theoretical frameworks. In one novel application, teams of practitioners engaged in collaborative theorizing in front of and with the clients during actual helping sessions. Team members, whatever their theoretical orientation, can agree to high priority moral, policy, and social change goals, and then dedicate their theoretical and intervention resources toward cooperatively achieving these mutual goals. The collaborative practitioners can best participate in multi-theoretical reflecting teams if they resist institutional and personal inclinations toward parading in-group and out-group distinctions. Practitioners who collaborate in reflective activities during multiple theoretical team meetings will solve more practical problems and solve them more effectively than those who use only one theoretical tradition.
