Perhaps the way out of this is to go back to a suggestion Chris made to
narrow the scope of issues to a specific pathology, e.g. drug addiction
or alcoholism. If we trying to measure relative changes in "daughter's
anger" it's going to be tough. That's a particularly abstract issue.
There must be populations, e.g. court mandated treatment programs, with
established parameters for measuring change. Though not eliminating
these uncertainties, they might offer a better data pool. Dan
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From: Sarah Moore [mailto:sarahmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 6:49 PM
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] Research/Tracking progress
dear jo,
yes, as a measure that is fine, and used in lots of research, but the
difficulty is, on what would we use the measure? often the issue the
client brings to the constellation is not the issue that unfolds in the
constellation as the 'real' issue or 'soul' issue - eg they might say
the problem is their daughter's anger and we find out in the
constellation that the problem is an entanglement with father's mother
for example. so would we use the measure on the orignial problem, or
would we measure more nebulous things like quality of life in general
afterwards, or relationships within the family, or other things.
sud by itself may also not be enough, if we were using scales we could
use other quality of life measures of which a number abound, and the
psychologists present would be more au fait than me about them.
but i agree with you in principle that a measure that can be applied
universally is necessary for research purposes.
love
sarah
fenwick wrote:
Greetings and Blessings!
I'd like to table as a suggestion, a possible means of more accurately
tracking and recording the unfoldment of the after-effects of a
constellation. A mechanism already in use for other modalities, is
called by the unweldy name of SUDS: Subjective Units of Distress (you
could call it anything). I use it with my clients for determining how
much 'charge' they have over an issue during sessions using the
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Clients make a before and after
reading which makes progress obvious.
For those who don't know how it works: People rate from 0-10 how
disturbed they are by contemplating now, the issue being worked with and
comparing the feeling to everytime they have experienced that same
feeling in their lives. Zero is being at peace about it and 10 being
the most disturbed. Sometimes this approach wouldn't be appropriate for
constellations eg the person may have had a generalised feeling of not
belonging all their lives. Although, in this case it could be possible
to get them to rate this disturbance to all the emotional pain they have
ever felt in their lives.
We use the low scale 0-10 because EFT usually normalises the problem in
a few minutes. Because constellations onfold for two years or more, I
believe it would be better to use a scale of 0-100, as this makes it
easier for the maths as well - (0-50 could work, but a bit more
cumbersome for math).
It would mean that facilitators would need to check in with the client
either between them naming their issue and before the constellation
starts or at the end of the constellation (having then to rely on their
albeit recent memory). The latter risks bringing the person 'down'.
The question would need to be recorded so the same one was asked in 6/12
months' time.
Obviously this idea needs plenty of development if any good at
all........ What are others' thoughts about it?
Blessings. Jo
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