Exam 6: Exploring for Exceptions:building on Client Strengths and Successes

Ah Yan was unable to identify any exceptions.

The authors recommend finding out how an exception happened before taking time to gather a detailed description of the exception.

are those times in a client's life when the client's problem might reasonably have been expected to occur but somehow did not.

Exceptions need not be an all or nothing thing; they may be a matter of greater or lesser degree.

Clients often minimize the importance of their exceptions.

The authors recommend doing exception exploration before working on goal formulation by asking the miracle question.

The authors recommend asking scaling questions about all of the following except which one?

When clients can describe what they did to make their exceptions happen, they are essentially describing client successes.

One of the exceptions identified by the Williams' family was that Marcus had offered to let Offion ride his bike once each afternoon when the latter's bike was in the repair sho

exceptions are those when the client can describe step-by-step how the exception happened.

Exceptions from the recent versus distant past tend to be more useful to clients in solution building.

Positive change between the time when the client made an appointment and the appointment itself is called .

The authors recommend scaling clients' confidence about finding solutions at the beginning of a session so as to get the most accurate scaling score.