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

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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

A) Clear
B) Useful
C) Deliberate
D) Successful

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Ah Yan was unable to identify any exceptions.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Clients often minimize the importance of their exceptions.

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

A) Self-confidence
B) Motivation to change
C) Duration of problems
D) Progress toward goals

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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