Exam 8: Later Sessions: Finding, Amplifying, and Measuring Client Progress

In getting details about what is better, which one of the following should the interviewer not ask?

When clients continue to insist in a later session that nothing is better, the practitioner should turn to asking coping questions.

Despite Gladys' best efforts to the contrary, Albert returned with Gladys and the children for a second session with Insoo.

In later sessions of solution building, goal formulation generally precedes exception exploration and scaling.

At the end of their second session, Peter gave Ah Yan the suggestion.

Ah Yan was able to describe to Peter in their second session some things which were better since their first meeting, but she had no idea about what she might have done to make those things happen.

The "E" in the acronym EARS stands for the word:

Gladys indicated that she had been molested by her father and that her mother failed to believe it and would beat her for supposedly lying about her father.

All of the following emerged out of Insoo and the Williams family discussion of what was better except the following?

In the second-session meeting between Ah Yan and Peter, what did she indicate was one of the things which were better?

In later sessions, goal-formulation is accomplished through the use of ?

Ah Yan's perceptions about the meaning of her symptoms and problem shifted between the beginning of her first session with Peter and the end of her second session.

In their second session, Ah Yan was better able to describe the underlying problem for her anxiety.

Clients often go beyond the limits of their suggestion assignments in building solutions.

The majority of clients are unable to state anything specific in answer to the "what's-better" question.

Normally, the practitioner begins later sessions by asking clients whether they have completed the suggestions which were assigned at their previous session and whether the suggestions were helpful.

Solutions are built primarily from the client's perception of:

The "what's-better" question which is used at the beginning of all later sessions in solution building is a question.