ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to set out how the use of questions can enhance the ways we talk with children by reshaping the style of adult-focused enquiry. Questions may act as possible ways to promote conversations about such differences, and in child-focused practice the therapist can use questions to help bring the child's point of view into the family conversations. Multiple-choice questions can also be offered to young children in the form of pictures depicting a sequence—for example, from a happy face at one end of the continuum, with different faces progressively moving towards a sad face at the other end. Sequencing questions can become more animated if enacted by the child in role-play. Ranking questions are useful in helping order and categorize a child's views and feelings, and they are particularly useful in bringing some clarity and meaning to what the child thinks and feels.
