Individual Couseling In Practice Flashcards
What is a Reflective Response?
“What I heard you say is […]”
It is a way to offer a reflection of what you heard the person say.
What is an Interpretive Response?
“It sounds like […] brought of similar feelings to when […]”
As you begin to build a relationship with a patient and their past, you can start to interpret certain feelings or connect the dots
What is a Supportive Response?
“It must have been difficult to […]”
Offering support, an understanding of the patient’s feelings and experience
What is a Probing Response?
“I got what you said until […], could you tell me a little bit more about […]?”
A question that pushes the client to elaborate a bit more
What is a Listening Response?
Involves Paraphrasing and Clarifying.
Like asking for directions from a stranger, you will more often than not repeat it back to them to make sure you’ve got it.
This can be used when
- a complex statement is made
- you’re not sure you completely understand
- or when you feel its important for the patient to know that you are really listening
What is Affect Recognition?
A response that focuses on feelings, emotions, doubts, values, reactions, rather than facts.
Think of it like focusing on the music that goes along with the words (tone of voice, choice of words, hesitations, inflections, body language, facial expression, etc…)
You can echo to them how you perceive their feeling. Ex/ inattentiveness - “you look a million miles away.”
Areas of Exploration
- Thoughts
- Feelings
- Behaviors
- Somatic manifestations
- Attributions (why they think something happened)
- Meaning (Client themselves, relationship with the other person, the situation itself)
- Sequence (Events / Dialogues)
- Ideal (fantasy) vs Reality (What should have happened?)
- Explore “rules” and whether they are realistic / true / helpful
- Significant relationships (dynamics, frequency of contact, quality of contact, living arrangements, alliances, rivalries, etc…)
- Client Social History (Prior Therapy, Relationships, Parenting style, Birth order, Role, Significant Events, etc…)
- Client Personal Experience (Traumas, Experiences, Cognition, Patterns of behavior, Morals and values, Messages received about groups - LGBT, Religious, Racial, Culture)
List the parts of a Case Conceptualization
1) Assessment - the development of critical information related to the client
2) Theory - the placement of the client’s problem within a theoretical context
3) Treatment - the development of a change strategy
4) Evaluation of the success of limitations of the treatment
