The Life Grid (per McWhirter) is useful in locating behavior, values, etc. within various social domains. The Life Grid allows a more complete tracking and avoids over-simplification. Tracking a person's problem description using the Life Grid can clarify what the difficulties consist of, the role of each one, and how they interact. In this way you can find the sequence of Doings, enhance the client's model from static to dynamic, test the degree of connection in thinking and gather more information; unpack thinking and decide where change work is needed. For example, the sequence could be behavior, process, thinking… [?]
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[Structural
differences between each level are important.
For example, Identity, Beliefs, and Values all involve judgments, but
Identity involves judgments about "who I am", Values involve
judgments in terms of the evaluative triangle, and beliefs involve conclusions
about how things work. Beliefs are more
tentative compared with Identity.
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wonder about other models and which ones are most profitably used in describing
or exploring which of the (upper) levels:
Beliefs, for example, could be
profitably explored using In-Time/Between-Time/Through-Time; more specifically,
if you believe that a particular sprout is a grape plant, the structure of the
belief may have to do with some instantaneous sense of "grapeness"
(In-Time), recognition of exactly this form of grape from previous experience
(Between-Time), or how this sprout develops to become a recognizable grape (Through-Time).
Values could be explored using
Like/Want/Need: If you go away from
depressed people, is it that you like to avoid them, want to avoid them, or
need to avoid them? If it is need to avoid, then there may be a
belief about certain negative consequences which always occur if you don't
avoid which, in turn, could be explored using Time, Transit-Transfer-Transform,
FADS, etc. If it is want to avoid, the affective dimension
of the Evaluative/Motivation Triangle may best be used to clarify.