A paradigm shift in handling a variety of physical, intellectual emotional and / or social problems. The paradigm shift is radical in two inter-locking ways:

Practical:

It involves taking a seemingly irrelevant side step to establish whether there is a mis-match between the writing and the adept (wright) hand. If the mis-match is found, then it cannot be eliminated as a co-factor in whatever the presenting problem happens to be. Remedying the mis-match must be considered as part of any problem solution.

Conceptual:

It is grounded in a faceted rather than a components model of how human agents operate. This can be best presented as a tetrahedral pyramid with each surface re-presenting physical, intellectual, emotional and social perspectives. One implication of this model is that if something is found to be out of kilter with one facet, then  something else will invariably be found to be out of kilter in one or other of the facets on deeper probing.

The ‘unit of analysis’ is taken to be the interaction between individuals, and not the individual alone. The rationale is that all presenting problems exist within some or other social context. In principle there are three types of interaction:

mutually beneficial: all parties to the interaction benefit by engaging in progressive problem shifting

mutually destructive: no party to the interaction benefits because they’re engaged in regressive problem shifting

zero-sum: one party gains / progesses and the other(s) lose(s) or remain(s) static

Testimonials

These testimonials evidence the success of conducting assessments for personal, educational, medico-legal and legal purposes within this radically differnt re-framing. To repeat, the key  feature is to seek to eliminate  a mis-match between the writing and the adept hand as a co-factor in the presenting problem. If  the mis-match is found to be present  then there is a need to ensure that any ‘treatment programme’  takes account of this generally unacknowledged condition.