"You have to do this, and only this”: a plea for clinical flexibility at the times of coronavirus

The Catastrophe of the Coronavirus is just a special circumstance in order to show that clinical flexibility and therapist’s responsiveness is a necessary way of working if we want to meet our clients’ very different situations and expressed needs. Since decades a large amount of research has been stressing that “one size fits all” approaches are therapeutically detrimental, especially if clinical protocols are applied rigidly and exclusively. On the contrary, clinicians are helpful if they are able to tailor their craftsmanship to their clients’ specific conditions, in particular by realizing that emotional closeness can be attained even through phone or Skype.