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From: Brian Humphrey
Date: 09 Oct 2007
Time: 19:29:56 -0500
Remote Name: 75.74.131.143
Transfer to new situations works best with planning. Going outside the clinic with your client is great. Bringing family into the clinic helps too. The parents of a three-year-old I'm working with have designed their own rating scale with their son's help to use in selected situations at home. My little client understands the scale because he helped work it out. I have had success with clinician-and-client-designed rating scales for clients through adulthood. I ask clients to bring their ratings in every week, so I have documentation of what they are doing outside the clinic and how they are rating their performance. I have my clients' parents and the clients practice doing ratings in their clinical sessions and comparing their ratings to mine so that they have an idea of how to rate performance outside the clinic.