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Marital and Family Therapy

Category - Treatment

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As a solution-focused therapist, you can appreciate the importance of being able to quantify a lot of the progress that has been made in any therapeutic relationship. One of the ways that solution-focused practitioners do this is through “scaling.” How would you know when scaling would be inappropriate?
  1. Based on a client’s response to the first scaling attempt
  2. When a number could not accurately be assigned to a thought or feeling
  3. Scaling can almost always be applied, regardless of situation
  4. There will always be a sense of inadequacy around scaling
Explanation
Answer - C - Scaling can almost always be used, regardless of the situation, since you are not asking someone to quantify the amount of something that they feel, so much as quantify to what extent they are able to feel it. This removes the complication around emotional feelings being compared. Any missteps during the first scaling attempt could be explained with the novelty of being asked to quantify things this way, but will fade as therapy continues.
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