“…Through the use of ethnographic interviews clinical researchers have proposed the construction of client-based portrayals of therapy to explore the experiences of families, couples, or individuals who receive treatment (Brown, 1992;Joanning, 1989;Joanning, Newfield, & Quinn, 1987;Keoughan, 1993;Kuehl, 1987;Kuehl, Newfield, & Joanning, 1990;Lashley, 1993;Newfield, Kuehl, Joanning, & Quinn, 1991;Todd, 1989;Todd, Joanning, Enders, Mutchler, & Thomas, 1990;Ulberg, 1994;Wu, 1993 The study also indicated that therapists may be contentious themselves to therapy proceedings if they are not adaptable in the overall presentation of themselves and their interventions. Contention may be defined as a therapist who continues to present an exclusive pattern of therapy that the family cannot receive or understand.…”