Hill - Chapter 16 - Overview of the Action Stage

Question 1

Rationale for the action stage (2 key ideas)

Answer 1

1. Because most clients seek help to feel better or to change specific behaviors, thoughts, or feelings, it is important to help them attain these goals.
2. Taking action is crucial for consolidating the new thinking patterns learned in the insight stage.

Keywords: change behavior, insights learned

Question 2

Deterrents to action (6 key ideas)

Answer 2

1. Clients feel stuck
2. Clients do not understand the situation completely or understand it only at an intellectual level.
3. Clients do not take personal responsibility for their role in the maintenance of the problem.
4. Clients do not have the necessary skills to take the next step.

• may need to be taught, practice, and receive feedback about performance to develop theses skills adequately.
  5. Clients may lack the motivation to change.
  6. Clients may lack talent and resources

Keywords: stuck, not understand situation, no responsibility, no skills, no motivation, no resources

Question 3

______, _______, and _______ feelings and their role in creating the situation are important tasks before moving to action.

Answer 3

Expressing; understanding; accepting

Question 4

Philosophical underpinnings of the action stage (2 key ideas)

Answer 4

• Clients are the active agents of their own lives.
• This stage is still CLIENT CENTERED

Keywords: active agents, client-centered

(AA, CC)

Question 5

Goal for helpers in the action stage (4 key ideas)

Answer 5

• To continue to provide a supportive environment and facilitate clients in resolving their problems and making their decisions.

Keywords: support, faciliate, resolve, decide

Question 6

Markers for knowing when to move to action (4 key ideas)

Answer 6

1. When the client has gained insight and starts spontaneously talking about action.
2. When the client presents with a specific problem and simply wants relief from that problem
3. When clients are in crisis and need to make change immediately.
   
   1. some are not psychologically minded
   2. some cannot articulate their concerns
4. When the client is stuck in insight and not making changes.

Talk, relief, crisis, stuck

Question 7

Helpers __________ with clients in making choices, serving as ___________ of the process and helping clients ___________ the positives and negatives of the various choices rather than as ___________

Answer 7

collaborate; facilitators; explore; experts who provide the answers and tell clients what to do

Question 8

One of the defining characteristics of behavioral approaches

Answer 8

• behaviors, emotions, and cognitions (both adaptive and maladaptive) are LEARNED.

Question 9

What is Modeling? (3 key ideas)

Answer 9

• Observational learning
• Occurs when a person observes another person perform a behavior and receive consequences.
• Whether the person actually performs the learned behavior depends on the consequences at the time of performance

Keywords: observe, feedback, perform

Question 10

How behavioral and cognitive theories relate to the action stage

Answer 10

• they fit well into the action stage because they provide specific strategies for helping clients change

Keyword: specific strategies