CRC CRC Coaching Models & Frameworks 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which coaching framework uses a wheel or circle diagram to assess balance across multiple life or relationship dimensions?
- SMART goals framework
- Wheel of Life (Correct answer)
- Johari Window
- ABC model
Correct answer: Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life is a visual tool used to assess satisfaction across multiple dimensions, helping clients see imbalances.
Question 2: A CRC applying Positive Psychology coaching would most likely encourage clients to:
- Analyze past relationship failures in depth
- Cultivate gratitude, strengths, and positive emotions (Correct answer)
- Diagnose their partner's personality disorders
- Focus exclusively on reducing negative behaviors
Correct answer: Cultivate gratitude, strengths, and positive emotions
Positive Psychology coaching focuses on building well-being through gratitude, strengths, and positive emotions rather than just fixing problems.
Question 3: The OSCAR coaching model stands for Outcome, Situation, Choices, Actions, and:
- Results
- Review (Correct answer)
- Resilience
- Reflection
Correct answer: Review
OSCAR stands for Outcome, Situation, Choices, Actions, and Review, with Review being the final evaluation step.
Question 4: In the context of CRC practice, a 'contracting' phase at the start of coaching primarily establishes:
- The coach's therapeutic diagnosis
- Mutual agreements about goals, expectations, and boundaries (Correct answer)
- A payment schedule for coaching services
- The client's relationship history timeline
Correct answer: Mutual agreements about goals, expectations, and boundaries
Contracting establishes the mutual agreements, expectations, roles, and working boundaries that guide the coaching relationship.
Question 5: Which model describes how people move through stages of change, from not considering change to maintaining new behaviors?
- Kübler-Ross model
- Transtheoretical model (Correct answer)
- Attachment theory
- Satir model
Correct answer: Transtheoretical model
The Transtheoretical Model (Stages of Change) by Prochaska and DiClemente describes the stages from precontemplation to maintenance.
Question 6: A CRC using motivational interviewing would primarily use which type of questioning style?
- Closed diagnostic questions
- Open-ended, reflective questions that elicit change talk (Correct answer)
- Confrontational questions to challenge resistance
- Socratic questioning to expose logical flaws
Correct answer: Open-ended, reflective questions that elicit change talk
Motivational interviewing relies on open-ended, reflective questions to evoke the client's own motivation for change.
CRC CRC Coaching Models & Frameworks 2
Which coaching framework uses a wheel or circle diagram to assess balance across multiple life or relationship dimensions?