‘Competence questions’: The use of competence
questions encourages self-compliments by the
client. ‘How do (did) you do that?’. ‘Resilience or
coping questions’: Most people have previously
solved many problems. The therapist therefore may
ask: ‘How do (did) you manage to go on under such
difficult circumstances?’ or ‘This sounds hard, how
are you managing to cope with this?’. ‘Feedback’:
Each session ends with feedback, usually involving
compliments for each person present and suggestions
for a task. The suggestions indicate areas
requiring the client’s attention (‘observation task’)
or possible further actions (‘behaviour task’) to
reach his or her goal, such as ‘think or observe what
in your present life you want to keep the same’ or
‘pretend on one day each week that the miracle has
happened’