Chapter 9 Flashcards
Empathic Confrontation (Supportive Challenge/Follow clients lead)
Clarifies the conflict by bringing out the internal and external discrepancies
It is going with the client, seeking clarification and understanding the complexity of the problem. It is also exploring the possibility of a new solution to the problem
Steps for empathic confrontation
1) Listen, observe, and note the client conflict, mixed messages, and discrepancies
2) Point out/ “feed back” the noted conflicts (external and internal)
3) Evaluate how the client responds and whether hearing it from you leads to change
4) If client doesn’t change, flex and use another skill
Non-empathic confrontation
- Aggressive confrontation
- Confronting the client too quickly
- Telling the client how to solve the problem
Reflection of meaning
Eliciting and reflection of meaning is both a skill and a strategy
As a skill it elicits meaning (what does __mean to you and your past or future?)
As a strategy you use all the microskills to bring out clients stories, past, present, and future, but the focus remains on the clients meaning and purpose in life
Reflection of meaning
Focuses on clients worldview, seeks to understand what motivates the client, and provides more clarity on values and deeper life meanings
Interpretation/reframe
Results from interviewer observation and seeks new and more useful ways of thinking
Reframe
Is a gentler construct that comes from your here and now observations
Interpretation
Relies more heavily on theoretical orientation of the interviewer
Linking
Two or more ideas that are brought together providing the client with new insight
Client don’t often volunteer their own reflection of meaning
Meaning isn’t often talked about in the “outside world”
Sometimes clients feel reluctant to look into meaning
The question that we should always have in the back of my mind
“What is the client telling me right now?”
