The reflexive training setting and trajectory equifinality model: investigating psychic function in a social-cultural light

Our considerations stem from the constructivist and socio-cultural approaches: particular attention is given to the processes of socio-symbolic mediation of personal and social practices. Here, these dynamics are considered with particular reference to the analysis proposed by two methodological and epistemological models: the Reflexive Training Setting (RTS) and Trajectory Equifinality Model (TEM). The processes of symbolic mediation and the processes of semiotic elaboration are considered in relation to the reflexive aspects of intrapsychic dynamics, and to the directional aspects orienting the sensemaking dynamics. The two models, which provide university students with possibilities for increasing their processes of semiotic sensemaking, are compared with their fundamental characteristics -described as "intersections" between the two-, in aspects that are both epistemological and methodological.