Putting Principles into Practice

 

All questions are leading questions.

(Hoyt & Berg, 1998, p. 209)

The Nobel physicist Isaac Isador Rabi said, “There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. [We should] ask the first kind.” Therapists who have cultivated an appreciation of the efficacy of questions understand that to question is to wield a powerful linguistic blade. It is necessary to ensure that the blade is used to reveal strength and beauty rather than to carve away these same qualities.

(McGee, DelVento, & Bavelas, 2005, p. 381)