Applying social constructionism to psychotherapy

Abstract

Social constructionism is the view that many of the abstract quantities, our relations according to these, and the relationships of evelyday life, are human made processes and contexts into which we have been born, or into which we can gain access by our credentials in society. Social constructionism has investigated personhood, male-female gender roles, sexuality, and the dzferent conceptualisations of appropriate social roles and emotional displays. All fields of science, study and debate are seen as historical processes occurring in human contexts of supporters and dissenters who gather round in a complex changing pattern. Explanations are not regarded as indisputable facts or truths, but only approximations, or part of a discourse between schools of thought.