Midterm Flashcards
Counseling Skills and Therapeutic Conditions:
1) Nonverbal skills
2) Encouragers
3) Questions (open/closed)
4) Paraphrasing
5) Reflection of Feeling
6) Summarizing
7) Reflection of Meaning (don’t HAVE to do this yet)
8) Empathy and Caring (in voice and body language)
9) Respect and Compassion
Counseling Dispositions and Behaviors:
1) Professional Ethics
2) Professional Behaviors
3) Professional and Personal Boundaries
4) Knowledge and Adherence to Site and Course Policies
5) Record Keeping and Task Completion
6) Multicultural Competencies in Counseling Relationship
7) Emotional Stability and Self Control
8) Motivation to Learn and Grow
9) Openness to Feedback
10) Flexibility and Adaptability
11) Congruence and Genuineness
Examples of Nonverbal Include:
1) Eye Contact (Don’t stare)
2) Posture (Open and not slouched)
3) Gestures (Use while talking not while client is talking)
4) Facial Expressions (You can show feeling on your face if it goes along with clients/is appropriate)
5) Physical Distance
6) Movements
7) Appropriate Physical Touch
8) Attentive Silence
9) Vocal Tone Including Rate of Speech
Encouragers:
What you have been doing, but don’t use encouragers when silence may have been better
Questions:
Try not to use any at all, but if you do make sure it’s clinically relevant, an OPEN question, ONE question NOT double, and follows the natural flow of everything (not forced because you don’t know what to say or want to escape the silence)
Paraphrasing:
1) Avoid parroting back what the client just said
2) Reflect back clinically relevant and appropriate information
Reflection of Feeling:
1) Use FEELING words that are similar to what the client said without repeating the exact word back
2) Stay with a feeling mentioned by the client instead of jumping around to other things
Summarizing:
Be more intentional with your summarizations and reflect content that was major/important and most discussed (Reflect content, behaviors, feelings, and future plans)
