Think about this in terms of supervision . The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total. Therapy as art vs. science. Theories as vehicles for explanation, prediction, and control. Think about crisis intervention.
Clinicians influence the client's telling of the story .
Reason why supervision is so critical to our work. Importance of deriving knowledge from our practice. We need to carefully observe our practice and describe what happens and what works and why. We need to pay as much attention to describing the process of our work as to measuring the outcome. Social Work as art and science.