COUNSELING TECHNIQUES Flashcards
: This assessment tool will get the individual to look at areas of their life and see which areas may be impacting and influencing them.
Spheres of Influence
: A counselor should often ask their client to clarify what they are telling them to make sure they understand the situation correctly
Clarifications
: When a person enters therapy, they should voice out their opinions about counseling and their beliefs about treatment.
Client Expectations
: We do not mean the client confronting the therapist, or vice versa.
Confrontation
: This has to do with the counselor being genuine with their feedback and beliefs
about their clients situations and progress
Congruence
: This technique in counseling goes over some essential traits the counselor needs to integrate for effective counseling, which are: positive regard, empathy, congruence or genuiness, and warmth.
Core Conditions
: Being as a counseor for your client is an essential techniique that will help facilitate confidence and respect between voth parties.
Encouraging
: As a therapist, having a good, yet professional relationship with your client is essential.
Engagement
: This technique involves the counselor demonstrating that they understand what their client is experiencing by using non-judgemental attention without any words.
Focusing
: The technique of the counselor speaking openly about something that is occuring in the present moment.
Immediacy
: with any relationship, Listening skills are needed to show that the counselor understands and interprets the information that their client gives them correctly.
Listening Skills
: Open-ended questions encourage people in counseling session to give more details on their discussion.
Open-Ended Questions
: This technique will show clients that the counselor is listening to their information and processing what they reiterate or clarify any misinformation that might have occured
Paraphrasing
: A positive technique used by counselor helps clients think up positive strengths and attributes to get them into a strong mindset about themselves.
Positive Asset Search
: Counselors use this technique to show their clients that they are fully aware of the feelings that their client is experiencing.
Reflection of Feeling