Facet-Mapping Therapy: The Potential of Facet Theory Philosophy and Declarative Mapping Sentences Within a Therapeutic Setting

When we think about our lives we usually do not conceive an undifferentiated existential whole.Instead, we tend to divide our experiences into sub-domains or facets: our work, our family, our friends, fun activities, money earning activities, things that are meaningful to us, things that are less important and we would perhaps rather not have to do, etc.We also sub-divide these facets into elements, for example a work facet into the jobs we do, place we work, people we work with.Thus, when attempting to understand how an individual experiences his or her life, considerations must be both ontological and mereological.By ontological I am meaning that we need to adopt a perspective that embraces: (1) our understanding of our nature of being; (2) the interrelated categories and concepts that are associated to a specified domain.Ontology also involves the relationships between the components within the ontology in terms of part to whole associations, or mereology.My approach is rooted in facet theory but does not employ all of the components of the approach [the interested reader is guided to the seminal works in facet theory development by: Guttman (1971, 1977), Borg (1977), Canter (1985), and Shye et al. (1994)].I have claimed elsewhere that facet theory when used with a declarative mapping sentence is concerned with both the ontological and mereological understanding of a research domain (Hackett, 2014(Hackett, , 2016(Hackett, , 2018a(Hackett, ,b, 2019;;Greggor and Hackett, 2018).A researcher who is adopting facet theory will conceive the research they are conducting as possessing multiple variables (both experimental and outcome) that will in some interactive sense be significant within the domain of their enquiry.

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