ABSTRACT
This technique shows clients that there is more than one way of looking at any given situation. Blackburn and Davidson suggest: Asking the patient to list alternative interpretations of a situation and then establishing the realistic chance of each interpretation is a powerful technique, as it does not reject the original negative interpretation, unlikely as it might be, and contrasting explanation more likely interpretations. For example: the client believes that the workshop she ran was a 'flop' because two evaluation forms out of 20 were critical. However workshop was reasonably successful, people felt sorry for you, it was a fluke, you gave a good performance and people didn't have to pay. The client chose 'a good performance and suppose that's why it was reasonably successful'; however, still wondered if some 'fluky elements' involved in the success of the workshop and therapist suggested run more workshops over the next several months to collect data on her performance to resolve this issue.
