Therapeutic Modes Flashcards
Response to change or challenge
Clients who are strong in this will demonstrate perseverance and healthy coping mechanisms to stress.
Clients who are weak in this will give up easily, make excuses, become easily irritable or angry.
Collaborating
-Relinquishing all therapeutic power and control.
-Facilitating the client’s independence in through and behavior.
- Expecting clients to drive your therapeutic reasoning by following their preferences and participation choices following the clients lead in every way.
Interpersonal Characteristics
Need for control.
Demonstrated through:
- Attempting to dominate or manipulate the therapeutic process.
- Excessive demands
- Going against recommendations
- Seeking high structure
Identifying Interpersonal Events
A client needs a piece of equipment that is unavailable within the therapeutic environment.
Limitations of therapy
Interpersonal Characteristics
Response to human diversity
Client may:
- Question practitioner about their personal characteristics.
- Make statement of inability to work with certain types of people.
- Make indirect statements of discomfort with people in general of a certain background.
Interpersonal Impulse Control
Client emotions, behaviors, and reactions that occur in interactions between the client and therapist and that emanate from underlying client personality traits and from the client’s circumstances.
Therapeutic Mode
Advocating
Providing clients with knowledge about and access to resources.
Awareness of laws or rights
Consciousness-raising
Normalization of experience
Therapeutic Mode
Instructing
- Directing, informing, guiding, educating, explaining, justifying, correcting, redirecting.
- Providing structure
- Making recommendations unapologetically
- Using gentle/ finessed confrontation.
Therapeutic Style
The primary mode or set of modes that you tend to utilize most often during interactions with clients.
Intentionality
Exertion of physical, behavioral, emotional, psychological, and interpersonal impulse control during an interaction with a client, while at the same time maintaining emotional congruity in all verbal and non-verbal communication.
Underlying principles of the intentional relationship model
- Critical Self-Awareness: is key to the intentional use of self.
- Interpersonal self-discipline: Is fundamental to effective use of self.
- It is necessary to keep head before heart.
- Mindful empathy: is required to know your client.
- Practitioners are responsible for expanding their interpersonal knowledge base.
- Provided that they are purely, and flexibility applied a wide range of modes can work and be used interchangeably.
- The client defines the successful relationship.
- Activity focusing must be balanced with interpersonal focusing.
- Application of the model must be informed by core values and ethics.
- Application of the model requires cultural sensitivity.
Identifying interpersonal events
A client makes a general statement about “ how young all of the healthcare stuff seem these days”. The practitioner happened to look very young, and the client may have been insinuating that the practitioner was one among all of the “young healthcare stuff”.
Verbal Innuendos
Identifying Interpersonal Events
The client is offended by a seemingly innocent comment made by the practitioner.
Empathetic Breaks
Behavioral Impulse Control
Involves establishing an appropriate amount of distance from or proximity to a client so that the client feels comfortable interacting…being cognizant of one’s resting facial expression and posture, paying attention to one’s body, hand, and arm movements (fidgeting, crossed arms)
- Movement
-Posture
Nonverbal communication
What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?
Normal
Interpersonal Characteristics
Predisposition to giving feedback.
Clients may:
- Never give unsolicited feedback or frequently gives the practitioner feedback.
- Minimize feedback when given, or gives significant detail
- Positive or negative
Therapeutic Mode
Encouraging
- Instilling hope, courage, and the will to participate, explore, or preform.
- Praising accomplishments
- Using positive reinforcement to encourage continued behavior
- Using cheering, applause, high fives, compliments, motivational words, humor.