ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a technique that combines externalizing the problem with scaling questions called "visual" scaling. With children, the use of visual scaling helps make change in therapy more concrete, graphic, and achievable, thereby allowing the therapist the opportunity to gauge the child's impression of change between sessions. Questions are designed to fit the emotional and intellectual development of the child, which can promote change by enlisting the child's participation in the therapeutic process (Duncan, Hubble, and Miller, 1997). The visual scaling technique offers one way to amplify the child's voice and help therapists and children arrive at solutions. The use of visual scaling invites the child into the change process.
