Narrative Reasoning: A Case Study

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When a therapist uses therapy regimes or routines thought to be effective with problems identified and that are typically used with clients in that setting, the therapist is using the third clinical professional reasoning, procedural reasoning (Willard & Schell, 2014). Lack of exposure and knowledge again forces me to give myself a low score of six in this area because I am not ready to use therapy regimes or routines to alleviate client problems yet. The fourth clinical professional reasoning is termed narrative reasoning. Narrative reasoning is a process used to make sense of people’s particular circumstances; prospectively imagine the effect of illness, disability, or occupational performance problems on their daily lives; and create

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