Commentaries

Abstract

May and Dennis have made significant contributions to our professional database in three areas: the sources of information used in clinical problem solving; the types of valued interdisciplinary communications used by therapists in their clinical problem solving; and the norm and variance in cognitive style preferences among clinicians in their clinical decision making, especially as they relate to areas of practice. In the introduction to this interesting paper, May and Dennis have raised important questions concerning the possible impact of direct access on the teaching of clinical decision making and the more fundamental question of the interrelationship between cognitive style and clinical decision making. Unfortunately, it is unclear how many therapists in the sample were, in fact, working in a direct-access environment, either in the United States or in Australia.