1.05 - Ch 9 - Client & Family Counseling

Question 0

What four things must be present in an effective therapeutic relationship?

Answer 0

Mutual…

Confidence

Trust

Respect

Consideration

Question 1

What is counceling?

Answer 1

The aspect of Speech-Language Therapy the focuses on the person rather than on the disorder

Question 2

What five things influence the client’s (and their family’s) perception of a positive therapeutic relationship?

Answer 2

Sensitivity (empathy for the client’s feeling and circumstances)

Respect (for the client as an individual)

Honesty (tactful presentation of difficult information)

Motivation (to actively participate)

Listening (by the clinician that allows for the venting of feelings)

Question 3

Do individuals clients require varying amounts of time to develop trust with the clinician?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Is a communication disorder usually a personal problem or a family problem?

Answer 4

Family problem

Question 5

Clinicians should look beyond the observable aspects of the client and family behavior and consider their ______ and _______ states as well.

Answer 5

Internal emotional

Affective

Question 6

Is counseling a one time event?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

Counseling requires that ______ be set.

Answer 7

Boundaries

Question 8

Clinicians need to recognize their ______ and realize when ______ need to be made to professionals with specialized counseling experience.

Answer 8

Limits (of their training and experience)

Referrals

Question 9

Situations that are out a clinician’s scope of practice will involve either the ______ or the _____.

Answer 9

Content (topic areas)

Style (how the clinician & client interact)

Question 10

What are the five key traits of an effective counselor?

Answer 10

Appropriate sharing

Nonjudgement

Tolerance of crying and emotional language

Being client/family centered

Refrains from solving the client’s issues

Question 11

What is appropriate sharing?

Answer 11

Not sharing too much personal information

This assures that the focus of counseling remains on the client and their needs

Question 12

Being nonjudgemental means that clinicians should not frame statements within the context of _______.

Answer 12

Good and bad

Question 13

What are the three stages to counseling?

Answer 13

Establishing the therapeutic relationship

Implementing counseling intervention

Terminating the theraputic relationship

Question 14

What falls under establishing the therapeutic relationship?

Answer 14

Providing information (as a pace that fits the client)

Setting the therapeutic agenda

Question 15

What falls under implementing the counseling intervention?

Answer 15

The “work”

Problem-solving

Teaching & counseling

Question 16

What are some emotional reactions to communication disorders?

(8)

Answer 16

Grief

Anger

Depression

Guilt

Shame

Anxiety

Inadequacy

Isolation

Question 17

What are 10 counseling techniques for communication disorders

Answer 17

Desensitization

Relaxation

Counterquestioning

Reframing

Open-ended and/or indirect questions

Role Playing

Empathetic listening

Paraphrasing content

Summarizing content

Silence

Question 18

What is Desensitization?

Answer 18

Mastering less stressful situations, then moderately stressful situations, to the most stressful situations

Question 19

What is Counterquestioning?

Answer 19

Responding to a client’s question in a way that looks for the real intent behind the original question

(Mother keeps asking about a child’s cognitive test scores. Clinician asks if something in particular is bothering her. Mother says she prevented her child from being labeled mentally retarded.)

Question 20

What is Reframing?

Answer 20

Encouraging the client and family to modify their views and attitudes towards a negative situation that cannot be changed

Question 21

What are Open Ended (Indirect) Questions?

Answer 21

Questions that do not limit the client’s response to a quick one or two word answer

These are used to elicit spontaneous and detailed responses

Question 22

What is Paraphrasing Content?

Answer 22

Rephrasing the clients message into your own words

Question 23

What is Summarizing Content?

Answer 23

Paraphrasing and condensing large segments of client interaction