It is unclear whether therapists use exclusive forms of thinking or whether the different styles of reasoning that have been identified in each piece of research were constructed through the research...

It is unclear whether therapists use exclusive forms of thinking or whether the different styles of reasoning that have been identified in each piece of research were constructed through the research process of attempting to describe in words a largely internal, tacit phenomenon (Robertson, 2012). Therapists may seem more rational in their decision making when interviewed after the fact because of the coherence that comes with reflection and the rules of narration. Descriptions of the different clinical reasoning processes that exist may reflect the epistemology of various researchers at the time (Robertson, 2012), such as anthropology (Mattingly and Fleming, 1994), medicine, cognitive psychology (Chapparo and Ranka, 2016) and social psychology (Chapparo, 1999; Unsworth, 2011).