ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203892374/4e54f153-d353-4fa6-8a55-2a1dd4f67b49/content/figu3_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> In this chapter, we examine the nature of professional problems and issues and illustrate specific techniques that can be used to identify, analyze, and clarify problem statements. The problem statement forms the foundation for all thinking and action processes in professional activity and its evaluation. Of particular note is the potential for the thinking techniques which we illustrate here to integrate and make complementary agendas and perspectives that might seem disparate and in opposition to one another. Therefore, careful and systematic formulation of the problem statement is critical not only in illuminating the complexity of professional problems, but also in providing the scaffold for discussion, analysis, and responses which advance tolerance and pluralism (DePoy and Gilson, 2007; Kukathas, 2003).
