Lesson 4: Counseling Processes and Techniques Flashcards
The Counseling Processes
- Relationship Building
- Problem Identification and Exploration
- Planning for the Problem Solving
- Solution Application and Termination
Who said this?
“Therapists can not open hope hope to open doors for clients that they have not opened for themselves.”
Corey
Problem Identification and Exploration is part of counseling process. Under this, it has three parts. What are those?
A. Define the problem
B. Explore the problems
C. Integrate the Information
True or false
Problem identification and exploration should be in a professional way and is structured.
True
Planning for the Problem Solving is part of the counseling process, what are the four parts of it?
A. Set a goal
b. Identify and List all possible solutions
c. Explore the consequences of the suggested solutions
d. Prioritize the solution
How many sessions a counseling should have?
6-8 sessions
what are the counseling strategies?
- Relationship Strategies
- Communicating Strategies
- Assessment Strategies
- Insight Strategies
In counseling your client, what distance should the counselor and the client should have?
2-3 feet distance without a table
This refers to one of the counseling strategies which includes being attending, accepting, emphatic understanding, being genuine and transparent, respecting, listening, caring, and ensuring emotional security of the client.
Relationship Strategies
Under the counseling strategies which has a definition of responding to verbal and non-verbal messages, silence, clarifying, reflecting, inquiring, paraphrasing and summarizing.
Communicating Strategies
Part of the counseling strategies having a definition of: Evaluating the client’s situation, coping levels, helping the client explore suitable alternatives and determining appropriate resources and referrals.
Assessment Strategies
Part of counseling strat and its definition is: Facilitating the discovery of conflicts, helping the client understand conscious, unconscious and altered conscious thoughts.
Insight Strategies
Define the four counseling strategies:
- Relationship Strategies
- Communicating Strategies
- Assessment Strategies
- Insight Strategies
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What are the counseling skills? and try to define each
- Listening Skills
- Leading Skills
- Reflecting Skills
- Summarizing Skills
- Confronting Skills
- Interpretative Skills
- Informing Skills
- Teaching Coping Skills
Under counseling skills:
Counselor notes verbal and non-verbal behaviors of client and responds to the basic messages of the client, clarifies content and emotions and checks the client’s perceptions for accuracy.
Listening Skills
Under counseling skills:
Leading the counseling interview, encourages and elaborates discussions, focuses on the issue by controlling confusion or diffusion, conducts open and closed inquiries through unstructured strategy of questioning.
Leading Skills
Under counseling skills:
Reflects feelings as he responds to he client’s emotion, reflects contents as he underscores the ideas and messages, and reflects experience as he responds the client’s total experience.
Reflecting Skills
Under counseling skills:
Putting the client’s messages and emotions together to make a total picture.
Summarizing Skills
Under counseling skills:
Recognizing and describing feelings, reacts to client’s expression and emotions, screens and pinpoints feelings, promotes self-confrontation, and facilitates the loosening of the client’s feelings.
Confronting Skills
Under counseling skills:
Gives valid information based on research and expertise and discusses with the client alternatives for possible solution of problems or possible ways of attending the client’s concern.
Informing Skilss
Under counseling skills:
Facilitates awareness as he symbolizes the client’s messages and emotions for a wider understanding of feelings and for broader perceptions.
Interpretative Skills
Under counseling skills:
Encourage clients to learn effective ways of solving his problems by using his own resources.
Teaching Coping Skills
What are the counseling tools? Enumerate
- Observation
- inventories/Questionnaires
- Autobiographical Sketches
- Case Study
- Assessment (Objective Tests and Projective Techniques)
- Anecdotal Records
- Psychological Interview.
Enumerate the ten counseling services
- Individual Counseling
- Group Counseling
- Career Counseling
- Couple Counseling
- Family Counseling
- Community Referrals
- Assessment
- Training
- Consultation
- Research