Exercise to create a Personal Questionnaire – a measure of the 8-12 most important problems or difficulties, in your view, that you wish to change or work on in counselling in your own words from your point of view
Problem Questionnaire – click here (pop-up) or • click here (page)
You may prefer to do this after your first counselling meeting or, at first, state 4 or 5 (or only 1-2) important problems or difficulties.
If you have a Personal Questionnaire – click here (pop-up) or • click here (page) (suggested frequency: every 2-4 meetings)
Strathclyde Inventory – short version: click here (pop-up) or • click here (page) long version: click here (pop-up) or • click here (page)
The Strathclyde Inventory is an inventory of statements based on Carl Rogers‘ observations of directions clients move in.
• suggested frequency: every 2-4 meetings
‘Individuals move, I began to see, not from a fixity…through change to a new fixity… But…the more significant continuum is from fixity to changingness, from rigid structure to flow, from stasis to process.’ (Carl Rogers, ‘A Process Conception of Psychotherapy’ (1957), On Becoming A Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy (London: Constable, 1961) 131).
Optional:
Process Continuum Scale – click here (pop-up) or • click here (page)
The Process Continuum Scale is a scale/measure of process differences (‘fixity’, ‘rigid[ity]’ or ‘stasis’ towards one end and ‘changingness’, ‘flow’ or ‘process’ towards the other).
• suggested frequency: periodically
Reviewing
Change Form – click here (pop-up) or • click here (page)
• suggested frequency: every 12-18 meetings
Helpful Aspects of Therapy Form – click here (pop-up) or • click here (page)
• suggested frequency: every 4-8 meetings