Rudimentary Skills in Counseling Flashcards
___ involves actively paying attention to clients.
Attending
___ is accomplished through presence and focus.
Attending
Under attending, to be present or fully focused on clients means paying attention to ___ (the content) and ___ (the process).
What they say;
How it is said
Under attending, ___ involves counselors putting aside their (personal_ issues to attend to clients.
Bracketing
___ may entail nodding one’s head, verbal tracking (i.e., staying on the topic the client brings up), accurate summarization, and an ability to have the client feel heard.
Active Listening
___ helps therapists attend to what is being communicated by conveying to clients a sense of what they are picking up from them.
Reflection
Under reflections, ___ is repeating everything the client says (for the last part).
Parroting
___ is demonstrating that they have heard what their client has conveyed and accepting people without conditions.
Validating
Under validating, it is mentioned that ___ is predicated on the skill of circumventing others’ fight or flight responses in a way that allows them to hear what is trying to be conveyed (without withdrawing or reacting strongly).
Effective communication
___ is the key to circumventing others’ fight or flight responses.
Validation or validating
Under validating, the faster a solution is presented to a client, the less her ___ has been considered.
autonomy
___ seems to be more effective than handing them answers.
Validating (clients)
___ is necessary, but by no means is it always sufficient for change.
Validation
The skill of ___ is being described in this statement: “Once a person believes he has been heard, he will be more open to the process of counseling.”
Validating
___ is getting as much information as is necessary.
Getting Information
___ is often accomplished when counselors are aware of the difference between ___ (what is said) and ___ (how it is said).
Questioning
Content;
Process
Under questioning, by focusing on the client’s process rather than content, counselors move the focus from ___ to ___.
external;
internal
Under questioning, ___ allow clients to explore their inner selves for answers that can reveal a great deal about their psyches.
Open-ended questions
Under questioning, ___ can be an excellent tool to use with an overly loquacious client.
Close-ended questions
___ means understanding and sharing the feelings of another.
Empathizing
___ means telling someone something about your life, something about you personally.
Self-disclosure
Under self-disclosure, ___ means that a therapist’s personal life is hidden.
Remaining veiled
Under self-disclosure, ___ is the concept that we want to give back to others when they have given to us.
Recriprocity
___ is the counselor’s job to help the client focus on the issue at hand.
Focusing
The tendency for clients to deviate from the issue at hand may occur for several reasons:
1. Get ___ in the details of their story;
2. Subconsciously noticing that the therapist is reinforcing certain parts of the story;
3. Strong sense of ___ (they want to change, they don’t want to change)
The tendency for clients to deviate from the issue at hand may occur for several reasons:
1. Get sidetracked in the details of their story
2. Subconsciously noticing that the therapist is reinforcing certain parts of the story.
3. Strong sense of ambivalence (they want to change, they don’t want to change)
___ involves two primary skills for therapists. The first to be able accept feedback themselves, and the second is to be able to circumvent the error of language.
Providing Feedback
Providing effective feedback involves two primary skills for therapists, namely: ___ and ___.
to be able to accept feedback themselves;
to be able to circumvent the error of language
Under providing feedback, people are much more likely to respect what they see as opposed to what they are told. Therefore, counselors must ___, and that begins with being able to ___, even when it is not always easy for people.
live out;
accept feedback
___, as described by Kell and Mueller (1966), effective counseling relationships as antithetical rather than complementary.
Confrontation
Kell and Mueller (1966) described effective counseling relationships as ___ rather than ___.
Antithetical;
Complementary
Under confrontation, it is said that therapeutic relationships are often most productive at ___. When therapists hold metaphorical mirrors to clients’ lives, clients are more likely to view the inconsistencies they espouse.
Antithetical level
Note that demonstrating inconsistencies to clients usually produces a challenge to seek order out of chaos.
Understood.
Under confrontation, it is meantioned that a counseling relationship is not always filled with pleasantries, but this by no means makes ___ unhealthy.
confrontation
Under confrontation, it is mentioned that to ___ is by no means to yell at another or even ardently disagree. In face, some of the most effective confrontation is that which is done in a way where the client does not even realize it is occurring.
Confront
Under confrontation, it is mentioned that ___ is an effective means of providing necessary feedback.
Gentle confrontation
Under confrontation, it is mentioned that we may use “___” to confront our clients.
I wonder if…
___ is a complex skill if it is to be performed without eliciting another’s fight or flight response.
Confrontation
___ gives the client control of the content, pace and objectives.
Silence
___ is contracting with clients about what they want.
Goal Setting
Under goal setting, ___ are short-term goals.
Proximal Goals
Under goal setting, ___ are long-term goals.
Distal Goals
___ is described in this statement: “Genuineness stems from congruence between the real or actual self (who we truly are) and the ideal self (either who we believe we are or who we strive to be)
Modeling
___ is described in this statement: “People are more likely to listen to others who practice what they preach than those who do not.”
Modeling
___ is described in this statement: “To reframe what someone says, a counselor merely has to reflect what clients say in a different way from how the clients presented it.”
Reframing
___ is described in this statement: “Understanding when to terminate clients is a skill that takes experience, practice, and most often, guidance from an outside entity, such as a supervisor.
Termination
Under termination, to acknowledge that the counseling relationship is relatively ___ is to recognize the limitaions of the process.
short-term
Under termination, one fairly common reason to terminate clients is to avoid a relationship of ___.
Dependency
Under termination, as clients enter counseling and psychotherapy, they should be made aware that the ensuing professional relationship will not be ___.
Interminable
Under termination, one way to lead in to acknowledging termination is to let clients know ___ is left in individual sessions. It is helpful for clients to know ___ of both individual sessions and the ___ of therapy in general.
much time;
length
___ is the opposition of the therapy process in which a client refuses or rejects suggestions made by a psychologist.
Dealing with Resistance
Under Dealing with Resistance, it is mentioned that people are ___, they want to change; and they don’t want to change.
Ambivalent
Under Dealing with Resistance, ___ is when clients bring counselors on topic.
Healthy Resistance
Under Dealing with Resistance, ___ is when client responds by changing the topic or avoiding the question or comment.
Defensive Resistance
Some of the ways defensive resistance can occur are through ___ to counselors, ___ for appointments, ___, ___, or ___ for counseling.
Shutting down and not speaking;
Not showing up;
hostility;
over-compliance;
rejection of the need
___ is a compendium of previously reported statements.
Summarizing
