Should I use the Rickter Scale® with every client, or be selective about its use?
You, the practitioner, need to use your professional expertise to make judgements about which helping methods are appropriate to which clients. The Rickter Scale® is designed to be used with a wide variety of clients in many different settings and situations and with very different needs. It would therefore be difficult to identify which client was ‘right’ or otherwise, for using the scale. Judging a client to be ‘wrong’ for use with the scale could also be interpreted as discriminatory. Experience has shown that the very client, who has been pre-judged to be unresponsive to the scale, has often benefited the most from working with it.
