True or False

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

2.      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. 

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

4.      The majority of clients are unable to state anything specific in answer to the “what’s-better” question. 

5.      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. 

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

7.      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. 

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

9.      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.    

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

Multiple Choice

1.      The “what’s-better” question which is used at the beginning of all later sessions in solution building is a _________ question.

a.      goal-formulation

b.      exception

c.       scaling

d.     coping

2.      Solutions are built primarily from the client’s perception of:

a.      goals.

b.      exceptions.

c.       motivation level.

d.     confidence level.

3.      The “E” in the acronym EARS stands for the word:

a.      engaging.

b.      exceptions.

c.       eliciting.

d.     examples.

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

a.      What is better?

b.      When is it better?

c.       How does it happen?

d.     Why is it better?

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

a.      She quit a job which was overwhelming for her

b.      She left a dance for a brief walk with her husband when she becomes anxious

c.       She found acceptable day care for her children

d.     She stood up for herself with an intrusive mother-in-law who was criticizing her for working outside the home

6.      In later sessions, goal-formulation is accomplished through the use of :

a.      the miracle question

b.      exception questions

c.       scaling questions

d.     coping questions

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

a.      do something different

b.      overcome the urge

c.       continue to do what works      

d.     formula later-session

8.      Which of the following emerged out of Insoo and the Williams family discussion of what was better?

a.      The family had been to the Salvation Army Family Camp and enjoyed it.

b.      Gladys had set more boundaries on extended family members.

c.       Three of the children had enjoyed each other’s company.

d.     All of the above