Hypothesis guessing. When clients try to “figure out” what the practitioner appears to want above and beyond what the practitioner has said, the client may change partly as a result of wanting to...

Hypothesis guessing. When clients try to “figure out” what the practitioner appears to want above and beyond what the practitioner has said, the client may change partly as a result of wanting to conform to this hypothesis rather than because of the actual intervention. Example: Even though the practitioner tried to clearly describe what he was trying to accomplish, Kyle kept thinking there was “something more” going on and his behavior began to change due to his own guessing and not the actual intervention program.