Abstract
This study investigated the possibility that interventive circular questions violate the principle of neutrality advanced by the Milan school as essential to the practice of systemic family therapy. A method for categorizing circular questions as interventive or descriptive was developed to explore neutrality violations. Neutrality was operationalized as client perceptions of therapist side-taking and feelings of discomfort. Immediately after family therapy, individual family members viewed videotape replays of moments when circular questions were posed and rated their perceptions of therapist side-taking and feelings of discomfort for each selected moment. Findings indicated a greater tendency for non-neutrality with interventive questions. Neutrality was also represented as multidimensional through the lack of correlation between side-taking and discomfort ratings.
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