Author Question: When might closed-ended, multiple choice questions be useful? A) When clients who are not used to ... (Read 151 times)

RYAN BANYAN · **on:** Aug 4, 2018

When might closed-ended, multiple choice questions be useful?

A) When clients who are not used to expressing or reporting on their feelings require a larger vocabulary to describe what they are experiencing
B) When practitioners want to inhibit the client's exploration
C) When clients have a large emotional vocabulary and require an even larger vocabulary to describe what they are experiencing
D) When the practitioner wants to develop a rapid-fire questioning style

Question 2

What could a practitioner do if the client is giving one-word responses to open-ended questions?

A) Confront the client by saying, You are being resistive to therapy.
B) Encourage the client by saying, Tell me more about
C) Change the subject as the client is not interested in discussing the current topic.
D) Ask only closed-ended questions because those are the questions the client is comfortable answering.