ABSTRACT
After you have helped your client to create a focus, the next step is to help them do two things. First, help the person to state their target problem (i.e. the one problem that they selected to address in SSICBT) so that you can both understand it more clearly (which will be the focus of this chapter) and second, help the person to set a goal in relation to this target problem (which is the focus of Chapter 23 ). If they have not yet had a chance to do so give your client an opportunity to express their target problem in their own words. When they do so, I suggest that you listen to what they say using whatever assessment framework that you employ and to use this framework when clarifying what they are saying. This is likely to be some version of the ABC framework that is commonly employed in CBT.
