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Major question categories are used in family therapy to elicit more effective question asking skills and obtain better answers to ultimately reach a more complete solution. These question categories can be applied as a constructive journalism strategy in order to create better questions and conduct efficient interviews. These categories are known as question roles within the field of constructive journalism.

Question Roles
Family therapy practices rely on good conversations with clients to ensure the success of the therapy. To do this, Karl Tomm has constructed a framework containing four major question types to guide family therapeutic sessions. The categories are Lineal Questions, Circular Questions, Strategic Questions, and Reflexive Questions. The first two are past oriented while the last two are future oriented. This framework was constructed in the hopes to help guide therapists in the construction of more effective questions.

Karl Tomm's practice has been proven to be effective within family therapy practices. Applying the practice to constructive journalism would help interviewers formulate better questions, guide a more constructive interview, and keep control of the interview. The four question categories can be transpired into journalism-centered questions rather than therapeutic-centered questions. A journalism centered framework has been constructed to better fit constructive interview situations. The four major categories for journalism are detective, anthropologist, captain, and future scientist, with each aiming to push the interviewee into a certain direction with the intended goal of the interview in mind. It has been projected that using all four types of questions in an interview will elicit a well-rounded understanding of the topic at hand as well as providing a constructive solution or projection. Though, Tomm acknowledges that “selectiveness [over the type of questions asked] gives the therapist an enormous amount of influence in setting and maintaining a direction for the conversation”, so specific implementation of questions is key to the success of the framework. Using the questions as a probe is much more effective than using them to push the interviewee into a certain direction.