Week 3 - Lecture Flashcards
Paraphrases
Capture core of the client’s story. Highlight without distorting . Reflection of contact. Not simply repeating back
Why ask questions?
- Make something vague more concrete
- Pinpoint a detail
- help clients think about the implications of their behavior
- provides focus for client action
- help clients explore feelings, motivations, ideas more fully.
Opened Ended Questions
How, Could, Would, What, and maybe why used to elicit client narrative
Close ended questions
Do, Are, How Many, When, How much. Elicits specific information that can be answered in one of few words
Why questions are problematic because
Call for client to intellectualize ( a defense) and speculate. Assumes everything we do has underlying motivation were aware of
Encouraging
Tell me more about that… it’s a directive to the patient. Give me more details. Describe…. They elicit narrative
Summarizing
Extended paraphrase, can be in the beginning of a session, included multiple sessions. Needs to be about three sentences . good to begin and end sessions with summary
Left Hemisphere of Brain
Left=Logical. Linear, perceives details as A,B,C. It’s linguistic. Processes language. Part of the brain that says “Why”, explains the world. Very literal, cannot be abstract
Right Hemisphere of Brain
Right=relational, Holistic, sees big pictures not details. Sees nonverbal information. It’s receptive, describe the world, doesn’t explain it. It is abstract. Responsible for autobiographic information. Nervous system regulation happens in right side, so stress reduction.
Information Path
When something happens in our environment the brain stem reacts first. It then goes to limbic system who assigns meeting, is this good or bad? Then to right hemisphere first where it is processed holistically, nonverbally, abstractly, and then it goes to the left where it is assigned logic and put into verbal communication
