Scaling
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Scaling questions can be used in solution-focused therapy to help clients assess progress. The therapist first explains a scale from 1-10 and has the client rate their current status. They then have the client describe what is better already and earlier successes to build a platform for further progress. From there, the therapist helps the client envision higher positions on the scale and identify small, achievable steps toward continued improvement. Scales can focus on success, motivation, confidence, or independence. Solution-focused scaling questions keep clients focused on change and empower them to generate their own solutions.
Scaling
- 1. Solution Focussed Approaches to Helping: Scaling Nathan Loynes
- 2. Scaling Questions Steve De Shazer (1940 -2005) Co-founder of the solution focussed approach with Insoo Kim Berg. After asking a client “what is better since last time?” The client said “I’m nearly a 10 now”. Hence, numbers used to understand development
- 3. Benefits Easy to use Focus on change Focus on clients phenomenological existence (Like Person Centred) Broad application
- 4. Scaling… ‘Steps’ 1. Explain the scale
- 6. Where are we now? 2. The current position
- 7. Like a jigsaw… 3. Establish a platform: Find out what has already worked.
- 8. Vision Visualise a higher position; describe how things will look.
- 9. Success and Strengths 5. Identify earlier success – what happened?
- 10. Small steps 6. Step forward – Ask the client what small steps they could take
- 11. Types of Scale Success scale Motivational scale Confidence scale Independence scale
- 12. Conclusion Being a cognitively flexible mentor might mean that at times you have cause to employ solution focussed techniques. This might be when: Discussions of the problem are creating stagnation and or frustration. The mentee is in a contemplative stage of considering the benefits of change. You are being motivational (interviewing). You are empowering the mentee to employ divergent thinking and offer their own solutions that are more likely to succeed than mentor led solutions.