True or False

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

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

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

4.       Ah Yan was unable to identify any exceptions.

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

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

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

8.       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 shop. 

9.       Clients often minimize the importance of their exceptions. 

Multiple Choice

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

a.       Miracles

b.       Solutions

c.        Exceptions

d.       Interventions

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

a.       Clear

b.       Useful

c.        Deliberate

d.       Successful

3.       Which of the following aspects of clients does it make most sense to ask scaling questions about?

a.       Self-confidence

b.       Investment in change

c.        Progress toward goals

d.       All can be usefully scaled

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

a.       unexpected change

b.       random change

c.        pre-session change

d.       exceptional change