Microskills

Question 1

Microskills: 3 Principal outcome-focused goals of helping

Answer 1

• Life-enhancing outcomes for the client. Help clients manage their problems in living more effectively and develop unused or underused resources and opportunities more fully at the service of life-enhancing outcomes.
• Learning how to help oneself. Help clients become better at helping themselves in their everyday lives.
• Developing a prevention mentality. Help clients develop an action-oriented prevention mentality in their lives.

Question 2

Microskills: The Client’s primary goal

Answer 2

To commit themselves to the helping process and capitalize on what they learn from the helping sessions to manage problem situations more effectively and develop opportunities more fully in their day-to-day lives

Question 3

Microskills: Stages of Problem Management

Answer 3

• Stage I: Help clients explore their concerns
• Stage II: Help clients determine problem-managing outcomes and set goals
• Stage III: Help clients draw up plans to accomplish goals
• Implementation: Help clients make it all happen

Question 4

Microskills: Techniques

Answer 4

• Genuineness, empathy, unconditional positive regard
• Probing questions
• Miracle Question
• Summarization
• Empathic Statements