HOW TO INTERVIEW FOR CLIENT STRENGTHS: A REVIEW

How to Interview for Client Strengths: Summary of the Major Points of the Article



How to Interview for Client Strengths: Summary of the Major Points of the Article

Introduction

The interview can be defined as the assessment or research instrument that precedes any type of intervention to decision-making process, adopting an interactive format, given the very nature of the instrument and because it is part of the assessment-intervention continuum. This paper presents summary of the major points of the article How to Interview for Client Strengths by Peter De Jong and Scott D. Miller in a concise and comprehensive way.

Discussion

This article presents a series of questions that we believe are appropriate to the philosophy and practice from the perspective of strong principles, including the commitment to work within the customer reference. Those issues, collectively known as solution-based interviews have been developed over 20 years working Shazar and his colleagues at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee. Although originally designed for use with individuals, couples and family therapy have evolved to the point where they are useful in a variety of practice settings and client concerns. In fact, we think that are useful in all other solutions before calling the practice problem solving with clients. This article discusses two key concepts behind the solution based on the interviews, the questions themselves, and a discussion of how these issues are in line with the main forces of perspective. Jong and Miller (1995) identified following major types of training objectives:

1. Goals are important for the client. The objectives are well trained when they belong to customers and are expressed in the language of the client, are not well trained, where, first, it is deemed appropriate by the employee and expressed in the categories of workers.

2. The ...