Concluding comments should be brief, reassuring, and upbeat. Again expressing your respect for their choice to come in, your appreciation for their work, or noting events upcoming in the week can be good transitional termination talk.
FORMAL COUPLE AND FAMILY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES Numerous couple and family assessment devices exist. It is beyond the purpose of this article to provide detailed descriptions of these devices. Therefore, instead of providing an exhaustive review of couple and family assessment procedures, we have listed some of the most popular instruments and procedures, along with their original references, in Table 12.1.
Interviewing Couples and Families Table 12.1. Couples and Family Assessment Instruments
Instrument and Citation General Description
Family Environment Scale The assumption underlying this measure is that environments, , Moos and Moos, 1986 such as families, have unique personalities that can be measured in much the same way as individual personality. Thus, the 90 item family environment scale seeks to measure the unique social climate within the family.
The Family Genogram, The family genogram is a procedure that enables therapists to McGoldrick and Gerson, graphically represent family structure. It is very popular among 1985 family therapists. The genogram is essentially a visual map of family relationships. It contains factual information such as names, ages, deaths, divorces, etc., as well as relationships.
Marital Satisfaction Inventory This instrument is a self report designed to assess marital in, D. Snyder, 1981 teraction and marital distress. It includes 11 subscales . The inventory should be completed by both partners and results are graphed on a single pro?le so that partner differences can be identi?ed, discussed, and addressed in counseling.
Traditional Assessment and Feedback
In many situations, using traditional assessment procedures with children and adolescents is recommended. Traditional assessment procedures include questionnaires, parent/teacher rating scales, projective tests, intellectual testing, and more. When interviewers use such procedures, children and adolescents are curious about assessment procedures and should be informed of the purpose of particular assessment devices and offered feedback regarding their test scores. Young clients in general and adolescents in particular are likely to feel anxious and distrustful of adults who are evaluating them.
Your explanations and feedback need to be carefully geared to both age and level of understanding present in the child. For example, when administering the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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The RPE is advised in CR because it is moderate submaximal exercise, where muscle and breathing sensations respond in an almost parallel fashion to the exercise stimulus, unlike exercising at higher intensities.
PERCEIVED EXERTION IS MORE THAN USING AN RPE SCALE Many clinicians will discharge patients based on the rating of perceived exertion scale. However, there is another step to be achieved, and that is for patients to be knowledgeable and experienced with the physical sensations, without the rating scale, of the appropriate intensity. The ultimate example of using perceived exertion to control exercise intensity is found in elite endurance athletes who, through their continuous training, have developed a strong sense for pacing. They are able to endure exercise on a very ?ne line between sustaining their pace and becoming fatigued; physiologists studying bicycle performance have termed this point the
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