ABSTRACT
We achieve contact with our environment through contact functions or self-functions that describe the five senses together with how we move and hold ourselves in relation to our world. Contact functions do not act in isolation but need to be separated out before we consider the overall picture of how the client makes contact with their environment (that includes the therapist). In doing so the therapist can assess possible areas of strength and growing edges in the clients contact making. Delisle developed a set of questions designed to provide a subjective assessment of the client’s observable contact functions. This chapter presents questions that may prove fruitful in initial and on-going assessment covering the client’s observable contact functions. The process of gathering information regarding clients contact functions is part of the process of forming a fluid diagnosis upon which to base therapeutic strategies.
