Pluralism limits.

Pluralism limits.

Limits

1)Simply put if one assumes that there are many truths you also assume that truth is relative to what is deemed true or not rue by the client. However, you as a therapist also have a set of truths which may be in contravention to the clients. Hence, pluralism fails in so far as having an objective means of finding what is true or not. (This is a bug barer of mine)

2) In applying a meta theory you would need an awareness of each theory beyond a generalist understanding of theory a,b or c. So, for instance, as a pluralistic therapist you would not be able to apply a theory other than in what capacity you know of a, b or c, which would be limited at best. So unless you spend a lifetime training in all 350 fields, you can only ever apply aspect of each, some interventions then may contravene each other.

3) Pluralism lacks a clearly defined boundary. It assumes, given it is a meta theory, is that it is a way of talking about theories. That's fine. However, it also claims to be able to utilise each theory, or pick out elements of them that are useful. There is no clear modality of doing that beyond a therapists good judgement, meaning every act of pluralism is different. So isn't that what everyone has already being doing? This makes it impossible to measure.

Tl;Dr
1)Truth becomes impposible to define without set boundaries.
2) How can you know every theory and apply them all in a session based in client prefence?
3) Its difficult to measure scientifically.

They're quite keen to talk about their strengths. Multi modality being the top one. Cultural awareness being the other. Goals. Feedback forms. There does seem to be evidence for these in the data.