Increasing Functional Contextual Awareness

Question 1

3 Aspects of Increasing Functional Contextual Awareness

Answer 1

Shape Observation of Experiences

Shape Description of Experiences

Shape Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences

Question 2

3 ways of Shaping Observation of Experiences by nonverbal orienting

Answer 2

• | Visual cues (e.g., Pointing to parts of the body, facial expressions).
• || Auditory cues (e.g., Pace, tone, and volume of voice; bell).
• || Tactile cues (e.g., Touching a part of the body)

Question 3

2 ways of Shaping Observation of Experiences by verbal orienting

Answer 3

• Spatial cues
• || Temporal cues

Question 4

How to Shape Observation of Experiences by Spatial cues ? (4 exemples).

Answer 4

• “Notice what is going on here.”;
• “Observe the sensations in your body.”;
• “Focus on your breath.”;
• “Picture your home and how you feel when you are there.”

Question 5

How to Shape Observation of Experiences by Temporal cues ? (4 exemples).

Answer 5

• “Notice how you are feeling now.”;
• “Can you remember how you were feeling then?”;
• “Observe what’s going through your mind at this moment.”;
• “Remember how you experienced feeling alone when you were young.”

Question 6

Increasing Functional Contextual Awareness: What do do if client get stuck? (2pts)

Answer 6

• | Use analogical framing to make observation more concrete
• || Use perspective taking to gain insight.

Question 7

Increasing Functional Contextual Awareness: How to use Interpersonal deictic framing to gain insight if client get stuck?

Answer 7

• “Think of a time when your wife was sad, and observe what you can see on her face.”;
• “Imagine you were one of the persons who saw you have one of these panic attacks.”

Question 8

Increasing Functional Contextual Awareness: How to use Spatial deictic framing to gain insight if client get stuck? (1 exemple)

Answer 8

“Let’s switch chairs in our minds, and observe what we can see from these different points of view.”

Question 9

Increasing Functional Contextual Awareness: How to use Temporal deictic framing to gain insight if client get stuck? (1 exemple)

Answer 9

“Imagine you are 2 hours from now and you remember this moment.”

Question 10

How to Shape Description of Experiences ? (2pts)

Answer 10

• Encourage neutral description.
• Encourage more precise description

Question 11

How to encourage more neutral description of experiences?

Answer 11

• Use coordination framing to name experiences
• || Use hierarchical framing to categorize and label experiences

Question 12

How to encourage more neutral description of experiences by Using coordination framing to name experiences ? (4 exemples)

Answer 12

• “What do you feel?”;
• “What do you hear?”;
• “What were you thinking in that moment?”;
• “What is this sensation like?”

Question 13

How to encourage more neutral description of experiences by Using hierarchical framing to categorize and label experiences ? (3 exemples)

Answer 13

• “You’re having an emotion . . .”;
• “What thoughts do you notice?”;
• “Is it a sensation of fatigue or excitement?”

Question 14

How to Encourage more precise description of experiences?

Answer 14

|| Use distinction framing to explore differences

|| Use comparison framing to explore differences along dimensions

Question 15

How to Encourage more precise description of experiences by Using distinction framing to explore differences (2 exemples)

Answer 15

• “How is this sensation different from that one?”;
• “Any feelings we can rule out?”).

Question 16

How to Encourage more precise description of experiences by Using comparison framing to explore differences along dimensions (3 exemples)
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Answer 16

• “Is it more or less intense?”;
• “Is it closer to irritation or rage?”;
• “Do you feel this sensation more in your chest or in your throat?”

Question 17

Shaping Description of Experiences: What to do if client get stuck?

Answer 17

• | Use analogical framing to make description more concrete
• || Use perspective taking to gain insight

Question 18

How to use analogical framing to make description more concrete
when client get stuck describing is experience? (5 exemples)

Answer 18

• “If this emotion had a size, a shape, and a color, what would they be?”
• “Imagine this feeling were a scene, how would you describe it?”;
• “Can you take a posture that represents this feeling?”;
• “Can you draw this emotion you are having?”;
• “What song would best say how you are feeling?”

Question 19

How to use perspective taking to gain insight when client get stuck describing is experience? (3 relationnal frames)

Answer 19

|Interpersonal deictic framing

„|Temporal deictic framing

„|Spatial deictic framing

Question 20

How to use Interpersonal deictic framing to gain insight when client get stuck describing is experience? (3 exemples)

Answer 20

• “If your daughter were experiencing that, how might you help her describe it?”;
• “What do you think I might be noticing right now?”;
• “If you heard what you told him from someone you love, how would you be feeling?”

Question 21

How to use Temporal deictic framing to gain insight when client get stuck describing is experience? (1 exemple)

Answer 21

“When you leave my office and you remember these feelings you’re having during our conversations, what words come to mind?”

Question 22

How to use Spacial deictic framing to gain insight when client get stuck describing is experience? (1 exemple)

Answer 22

“If you were sitting there looking at yourself now, what would you see?”

Question 23

How to Shape Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences ?

Answer 23

Encourage observation and description of contingency (antecedent →
response → consequence)

Encourage more precise description

Question 24

How to Shape Tracking by observation and description of contingency

Answer 24

• Use temporal framing to identify correlations among experiences
• || Use conditional framing to identify causal relationships

Question 25

Shape Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences:
How to Use temporal framing to identify correlations among experiences ? (3 exemples)

Answer 25

• “How do you feel right before you leave the room?”;
• “What happens when you look at her this way?”;
• “What did you notice after you decided to stay home?”).

Question 26

How to Use conditional framing to identify causal relationships ? (3 exemples)

Answer 26

• “What happens if you drink alcohol when you feel anxious?”;
• “What triggers this feeling?”;
• “What happens as a result of not talking?”

Question 27

How to Shape Tracking by Encouraging more precise description

Answer 27

|| Use distinction framing to explore differences

|| Use comparison framing to explore differences along dimensions

|| Use temporal framing to draw out additional consequences

|| Use spatial framing to explore various situations

Question 28

Shaping Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences:
How to Use distinction framing to explore differences? (2 exemples)
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Answer 28

• “What do you not experience after you call your friend for help?”;
• “What is different after you respond this way?”

Question 29

Shaping Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences:
How to Use comparison framing to explore differences along dimensions? (1 exemple)

Answer 29

“Did you feel more or less depressed after you canceled your meeting?”

Question 30

Shaping Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences:
How to Use temporal framing to draw out additional consequences ? (2 exemples)

Answer 30

• “And then what happens?”;
• “What about in the long term?”

Question 31

Shaping Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences:
How to Use spatial framing to explore various situations ? (2 exemples)

Answer 31

• “In social interactions at work, you feel scared and stay quiet. What about in social interactions outside of work?”;
• “In what situations are you more likely to respond to your fear by escaping?”

Question 32

Shape Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences
What if the client get stuck?

Answer 32

Use perspective taking to gain insight.

Use analogical framing to make functional relationships easier to observe
and describe

Question 33

Shaping Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences: How to Use analogical framing to make functional relationships easier to observe
and describe? (3 exempes)

Answer 33

„|Metaphors:

• “If feeling anxious were like stepping in quicksand, what would be your next move?”;
• “If you had filmed this moment with a camera, what would we see on this film?”.

„|Gestures:

• Moving a hand from the left to the right while reformulating the contingency.

Question 34

Shaping Tracking of Functional Relationships among Experiences:
How to Use perspective taking to gain insight? (4 exemples; 3 possible frames)

Answer 34

„|Interpersonal deictic framing

• “If someone said that to you, how would you be feeling?”;
• “If I asked your wife, what would she say you do when you feel uncomfortable?”

„|Spatial deictic framing

• “Imagine you were on the other side of the table during that meeting. What would you have seen happen? Try to describe the scene step by step.”

„|Temporal deictic framing

• “Imagine you could travel in time. What would you like to have done differently in the past year?”;
• “What do you think your life will look like in 10 years if you were to make this decision?”