Basic Listening Sequence Using these skills for assessment

Questions and the 8 Major Issues Questions help begin the interview. Open questions help elaborate and enrich. Questions bring out specific info about the client’s world. Questions are critical to assessment-content and focus of interview. The first word matters-pg. 103.

8 Issues, continued Potential problems Bombardment, grilling, interrogation. Multiple questions, or piling on. Questions as statements-leading. Use of “why.” Cross-cultural meaning of questions. Using questions for strengths assessment.

Solution Focused Approach Presuppositional questions Focus on exceptions to the problem The Miracle Question