Striving toward your goal
Follow up visits will tend to focus on the following questions:
What is better?
How did you do that? What did you do differently that made it go better?
What else can you try?
What old habits are getting the way?
Feedback Informed Treatment
Follow up visits will begin and end with standardized scaling questions that may help you see your progress and get the most out of therapy.
At the beginning of the visit:
On a scale from 1 (low) to 10 (high),
– How are you doing personally?
– How are things going in your important relationships?
– How are things going socially?
– Given these answers, how would you rate how things are going overall?
At the end of the visit:
On a scale from 1 (low) to 10 (high),
– To what degree did I hear and understand you today?
– To what degree did we work on or talk about the issues that you wanted to work on or talk about today?
“We have fabulous powers and potentials. Some are muted, unrealized, and imminent. Others glimmer brilliantly about us.”
— Dennis Saleebey, The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice
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