Vocab CH 6-8

Question 1

Closed-ended questions

Answer 1

Focused questions that can can usually be answered with a word or two.

Question 2

Dot dot dot reflection

Answer 2

Interview response where the clinician repeats back the last thing said and leaves it hanging for the client to complete

Question 3

Double questions

Answer 3

Clinician questions that confuse clients by asking them to reply to a stream of two or more questions at once

Question 4

Formal contracts

Answer 4

Written, highly specific, and concrete agreements that specify each goals component objectives and the tasks, steps, participants, and timelines for accomplishing each

Question 5

Hidden agendas

Answer 5

Secret aims of the clinician or client that are unexpressed and that can negatively affect the work together.

Question 6

Long term goals

Answer 6

Desired results that require extended time, work, and resources to accomplish

Question 7

Objectives

Answer 7

The specific and concrete component parts of goals that are observable and measurable and that can be used in assessing the effectiveness of interventions.

Question 8

Open-ended questions

Answer 8

No directive questions that keep clients in the drivers seat of the conversation by giving them more opportunity or flexibility in responding and elaborating

Question 9

Partialize

Answer 9

The technique of breaking broad goals down into their and measurable component parts

Question 10

Prioritize

Answer 10

The technique of ranking goals and objectives in the order of their urgency importance and likelihood of achievement

Question 11

Prompts

Answer 11

Minimal interview responses by the clinician that encourage the client to countinue with the story or to add to what has already been said.

Question 12

Pseudoquestions

Answer 12

Clinician directives or commands disguised as questions

Question 13

Rat-a-tat questioning

Answer 13

Clinician questions that barrage the client with one rapid-fire question after another. No topic is pursued long enough to develop any real depth or meaning.

Question 14

Sabotage

Answer 14

An act in which one member of a treatment team, who does not believe in the goals and plans that the team has established, encourages a client to undermine or act against the treatment plan.

Question 15

Short term goals

Answer 15

Desired results that can be accomplished relatively quickly in the near term

Question 16

Tangential questions

Answer 16

Clinician questions that veer from the main topic of the interview, taking side roads without good reason and creating an aura of aimless or poorly focused conversation