What is the behavior that has occurred in your child since last week that is consistent with your expectations/goals? Please describe in more detail? If your child is here, I ask him, “During the past week, on what day did you do (or what kind of behavior) that your mom (or dad) would have liked to see in terms of learning (or interacting with others)? What are the ways you affirm/praise your child? 2. Explore how it happened 1. What do you think you did to make it happen? 2. If your child is here and I ask him, what do you think he will say that you did to help him? 3. Where did you get the idea to do this? Projecting the exception into the future On a scale of 1-10, where 1 means no chance and 10 means a good chance, what are the chances that an experience like that will happen next week (next month)? 1. If it happens, what do I need to do? 2.What do we need to do if we want it to happen more often in the future? 3. Who must do what else to make it happen again? 4. What do you think the chances are that your child will say that this behavior will happen again? What would he say you could do to increase the chances of it happening? 5. Suppose you decide to do it, what do you think he will do? Suppose he did that thing, for you, how would things become different? 6.What is the next important thing to remember to do?