Assessment
20 articles in this category.
- Assessing Motivation: Who Wants Change and Who is Invested in the Status Quo
- Defining Specific Behavioral Goals Instead of Broad Emotional Ones
- Ending the First Session: How to Leave the Client Hooked for the Next Visit
- Gathering Information Through Action: Asking the Family to Enact the Problem
- How to Assess Whether a Case Needs Individual or Family-Level Intervention
- How to Handle the Client Who Refuses to Speak in the First Session
- How to Identify the Hidden Function of Any Symptom
- How to Shift the Family's Focus Away from the Identified Patient
- How to Use the Genogram Strategically Rather Than Historically
- Mapping the Sequence: How the Family Solves and Fails to Solve Problems
- Pinning Down the Vague Client: Moving from Complaints to Solvable Problems
- Reading the Room: How to Assess Family Hierarchy in the First 10 Minutes
- Recognizing the Stage of Family Life Cycle That is Driving the Problem
- Setting the Contract: How to Negotiate the Rules of Therapy
- Spotting the Cross-Generational Coalition Before It Derails Therapy
- The 4 Stages of the Strategic First Interview: A Practical Guide
- The Sequence Map: Tracking the Six Steps Before and After a Symptom
- The Social Stage: Why Small Talk is Crucial to Strategic Assessment
- The Three Questions Every Strategic Therapist Asks Before Planning an Intervention
- When the Problem IS the Solution: Recognizing Attempted Fixes That Backfire