Chapter 6: Exploration and Elaboration
Checking-in - (correct Answer) - A sustaining technique in which the clinician asks how things feel or
seem to the
Close ended questions - (correct Answer) - Focused questions that can usually be answered with a word
or two.
Crediting Clients strengths - (correct Answer) - The technique of stopping conversation to give clients
deserved appreciation for their courage, determination, and accomplishments to sustain them at hard
points of the work.
Dot-dot-dot reflection - (correct Answer) - An interview response in which the clinician repeats back the
last thing said and leave it hanging, unfinished, in midair for the client to complete.
Double questions - (correct Answer) - Clinician questions that confuse clients by asking them reply to a
stream of two or more questions at once.
Elaboration - (correct Answer) - A technique by which clinicians encourages clients to expand on,
deepen, and enrich the detail of their stories.
Extrospection - (correct Answer) - The process in which clinicians observe themselves in action with
clients in order to see where the power in the interview is at the moment. They then adjust themselves
as needed so that power stays with the clients.
Intervals of respite - (correct Answer) - Breaks in intense exploration or elaboration that protect the
client from being overwhelmed.
Introspection - (correct Answer) - The reflection process of looking within oneself to appraise the nature,
intensity, and meaning of feelings, thoughts, and dynamics that can affect interpersonal behaviours and
relationships.
Leading questions - (correct Answer) - A question that implies or suggests the answer that the
questioner expects of prefers.
Metaphor - (correct Answer) - A word or phrase (not meant literally) that clients or clinicians can use as a
symbolic representation of experience.
Not-knowing perspective - (correct Answer) - A viewpoint expressing two important aspects of clinical
knowledge building: (1) It is okay not to know, and (2) clients often know more than we do about the
realities of their experience and of everyday life.
Open-ended questions - (correct Answer) - Nondirective questions that keep clients in the driver's seat
of the conversation by giving them more opportunity or flexibility in responding and elaborating.
Prompts - (correct Answer) - Minimal interview responses by the clinician that encourage the client to
continue with the story or to add to what has already been said.
Checking-in - (correct Answer) - A sustaining technique in which the clinician asks how things feel or
seem to the
Close ended questions - (correct Answer) - Focused questions that can usually be answered with a word
or two.
Crediting Clients strengths - (correct Answer) - The technique of stopping conversation to give clients
deserved appreciation for their courage, determination, and accomplishments to sustain them at hard
points of the work.
Dot-dot-dot reflection - (correct Answer) - An interview response in which the clinician repeats back the
last thing said and leave it hanging, unfinished, in midair for the client to complete.
Double questions - (correct Answer) - Clinician questions that confuse clients by asking them reply to a
stream of two or more questions at once.
Elaboration - (correct Answer) - A technique by which clinicians encourages clients to expand on,
deepen, and enrich the detail of their stories.
Extrospection - (correct Answer) - The process in which clinicians observe themselves in action with
clients in order to see where the power in the interview is at the moment. They then adjust themselves
as needed so that power stays with the clients.
Intervals of respite - (correct Answer) - Breaks in intense exploration or elaboration that protect the
client from being overwhelmed.
Introspection - (correct Answer) - The reflection process of looking within oneself to appraise the nature,
intensity, and meaning of feelings, thoughts, and dynamics that can affect interpersonal behaviours and
relationships.
Leading questions - (correct Answer) - A question that implies or suggests the answer that the
questioner expects of prefers.
Metaphor - (correct Answer) - A word or phrase (not meant literally) that clients or clinicians can use as a
symbolic representation of experience.
Not-knowing perspective - (correct Answer) - A viewpoint expressing two important aspects of clinical
knowledge building: (1) It is okay not to know, and (2) clients often know more than we do about the
realities of their experience and of everyday life.
Open-ended questions - (correct Answer) - Nondirective questions that keep clients in the driver's seat
of the conversation by giving them more opportunity or flexibility in responding and elaborating.
Prompts - (correct Answer) - Minimal interview responses by the clinician that encourage the client to
continue with the story or to add to what has already been said.
