Practice Program

Finding the Right Words

A Companion to the Finding the Right Words Field Guide

Created by David Feinstein, PhD

144 clinical vignettes offer in-depth practice in cultivating your next statement. You will choose one of various plausible alternatives.

Then the program explains the merits and/or liabilities of each choice while naming which of the 21 language variations the correct answer reflects. Threaded through these explanations are brief clinical asides — small, sharp observations that spark the quiet delight of a clinical insight arriving from a fresh angle.

The wrong-answer explanations are built to teach as much as the correct ones. Each names why a plausible response misfires at this specific point — sometimes a sound move at the wrong moment, sometimes a beginner's overreach, sometimes a phrase that sounds clinically astute but doesn’t advance the session.