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Therapist Ratings of Client Focusing Activity
TRCFA,  Developed by James R. Iberg, PhD, January, 2001

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date:                         client initials or ID:                                       therapist initials:

PLEASE PLACE AN ‘X’ ON THE RULERS FOR YOUR ANSWERS

1.  To what degree did client articulate the full complexity, including internal and external aspects, related to the feelings worked on today?

0         2         4         6         8        10
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

      minimal                 average                  full articulation

2.  To what extent did the client experience the formation and opening up of immediate, viscerally felt feelings?

0         2         4         6         8        10
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

no occurrences         some bodily feeling,          several bodily-felt feelings
of bodily feeling      but little opening            formed and most opened up

3.  To what extent today, in your judgment, was the client able to accurately and fully represent his/her true feelings in words and self-image?

       0         2         4         6         8        10
       |----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

very little: seemed highly            some           seemed exceptionally self-
incongruent.  A lot going                            aware and able to articulate
on in feelings which client                          subtleties of feelings, and
seemed unaware of, or                                talk about experiences at
unable to express                                    odds with ideal self-image

4.  To what degree was the client able to acknowledge his/her full range of feelings without favoring some feelings and resisting others?

10        8         6         4         2         0
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

very well able             able to                    unable to acknowledge
to witness                 witness some,              feelings without reacting
all feelings               but not all                to or evaluating them

5.   To what extent in this session did the client seem able to loosen existing ideas and self-conceptions,  to “sense the unknown,” thus opening up to things unexpected or unfamiliar in feelings and experiencing?                 

0         2         4         6         8        10
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

not at all:  seemed            some             substantial “letting-go”
attached to certain views                       of previous views
and/or self-conceptions                         and/or self-images

6.  By the end of the session, did the client’s attitude toward self and others seem more narrow and self-oriented, or more humble and considerate of perspectives broader than his/her own?

10        8         6         4         2         0
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

humble and considerate      in some ways             very narrow and
of broader perspectives     narrow and self-         self-oriented
& other people              oriented, but
                            in other ways
                            considerate

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