Scaling (2014)
This document discusses solution-focused scaling questions, which are used to understand a client's progress on a numerical scale. It outlines the benefits of scaling questions, including that they are easy to use, focus on change and the client's perspective, and have broad application. It then provides steps for using scaling questions, which include explaining the scale, establishing the client's current position, finding what has already worked, envisioning higher positions on the scale, and identifying small steps forward. Finally, it concludes that scaling questions can be useful when discussions of problems create stagnation, the client is considering change, during motivational interviewing, or to empower the client to generate their own solutions.
Scaling (2014)
- 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 practitioner might mean that at times you have cause to employ solution focused techniques. This might be when: Discussions of the problem are creating stagnation and or frustration. The client is in a contemplative stage of considering the benefits of change. You are being motivational (interviewing). You are empowering the client to employ divergent thinking and offer their own solutions that are more likely to succeed than practitioner led solutions.