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McGee and his colleagues, in their investigation of how questions work in a conversation, state that once a question is asked of someone in a conversation, the second person is virtually required to participate by providing an answer.

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According to the authors, practitioners can be collaborative partners in the reshaping of client meanings which lead to more satisfying and productive lives for clients.

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The understandings or meanings that get put in place between participants in the grounding process in face-to-face conversations are called common ground.

The ideas of social constructionism arose directly from empirical studies.

Research findings show that client outcomes at BFTC do not vary significantly by the DSM diagnoses measured.

Over the course of her conversations with Peter, Ah Yan came to define herself as an increasingly important part of the problem and the solution.

The research methodology of random controlled trials has been useful in making the details of the co-construction of meaning more observable.

The authors state that solutions to clients' problems seem to depend more on clients' capacity to develop and expand their definitions of what they want and how to make that happen than on scientific problem definitions, technical assessments, and professional interventions.

For which of the following topics is it most useful to ask "why questions" in solution building?

According to De Jong and Berg, one implication of the findings on client problems and outcomes is that practitioner training in the future will have to become much more complex and diverse.

De Shazer states that, although he knows solution-focused procedures are useful, he does not know why they are useful.

The authors maintain that clients' capacity to reshape and shift their perceptions and definitions of reality is a critically important resource in their efforts to address their problems.

Over the course of her conversations with Peter, Ah Yan's perception of her problem shifted from figuring out strategies that she could use to keep her problem under control to figuring out the underlying causes of her panicky feelings.

The development of client meanings is not entirely an individual matter; client meanings are also influenced by the communities in which clients live and develo

Research findings show that client outcomes at BFTC do vary significantly by clients' self-reported problems.

In solution building, clients' problems are thought of more as a function of clients' current definitions of reality than as something which is real and knowable in an objective sense.