Client Assessment & Goal Setting Flashcards
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An RTT client's stated goal is to improve their relationship with their mother. During assessment, it emerges that the client also struggles with all authority figures. How should this affect the therapeutic goal?
Answer: Broaden the goal to address the underlying pattern of authority relationships that the mother represents
RTT assessment identifies patterns across relationships, and addressing the root pattern produces wider, more lasting transformation than targeting one relationship.
During RTT intake, why is it useful to ask a client 'If you woke up tomorrow and this problem was gone, what would be different?'
Answer: To help the client articulate a vivid, specific vision of their desired outcome
The miracle question creates a concrete, sensory-rich picture of the goal state that can be embedded in the RTT recording and future-pacing techniques.
Which of the following would be considered a POORLY formed RTT goal?
Answer: 'I want to stop feeling so anxious all the time'
Away-from, vague, and negatively framed goals ('stop feeling') are weak because the subconscious focuses on the unwanted state; RTT goals should be positive and specific.
In RTT, what is the significance of asking a client when they FIRST remember feeling the way they feel about their issue?
Answer: To locate the earliest sensitizing event that anchors the root belief
The first memory of the feeling points toward the earliest sensitizing event, which is where the root belief was formed and where RTT regression aims to go.
A client's assessment reveals they have very high expectations of perfection tied to fear of failure. How should the practitioner incorporate this into goal setting?
Answer: Frame the goal around developing self-compassion and an identity as someone who grows through effort
RTT reframes perfectionism at the identity level, replacing fear-of-failure beliefs with growth-oriented self-beliefs that are more adaptive.
What is the purpose of the RTT practitioner maintaining a 'neutral and curious' stance during client assessment?
Answer: To avoid projecting assumptions or interpretations onto the client's experience and allow authentic disclosure
Neutrality and curiosity preserve the client's own narrative, ensuring assessment reflects their authentic experience rather than the practitioner's assumptions.
When an RTT client has multiple issues they wish to address, what is the BEST practice for goal setting in a single session?
Answer: Identify and focus on the most impactful root issue, as resolving it often creates positive ripple effects across other areas
RTT's root-cause approach recognizes that a single underlying belief often drives multiple surface problems, so targeting the root creates the broadest change.