Counseling Interventions Flashcards

• counseling microskill that must be used with great care
• involves moving a client from an immobilized developmental process toward change and transformation. It is an integrative skill using both listening and influencing.
• heavily utilized in Gestalt therapy, motivational interviewing, and multicultural and feminist therapy

• an essential counseling skill.
• counselor affirms the story that is being told with acceptance and genuine understanding.
• Includes 1) feeling, 2)context, 3) include body language that reflects what is being said

• does not mean ignoring the past and the future.
• includes sharing of past events and future aspirations, but the focus is on client's feeling about and reactions to past and future in the present, rather than what has or may happen
• role play is one way to keep here/now

• A represents the Activating Event. B represents the Belief about A. C represents the Consequences.
• If the activating event cannot be avoided, the client will learn how to dispute the belief. This will help lessen harmful negative emotions such as rage, betrayal, or shame. Instead, he may feel disappointment, frustration, or regret. While these are still negative emotions, they are less harmful and their consequences are more manageable.
• emotion regulation skill

An internal or external trigger. Sometimes, it involves a misinterpretation of the trigger

The trigger is appraised as intentional, unexpected, and preventable. Those with a low tolerance for frustration are likely to appraise a trigger in such a negative way.

physical and mental inner experience and the thoughts that accompany it. There may be a rush of adrenaline, raised blood pressure and heart rate, rapid breathing, fury, and an inability to think about anything else.

These are the observable responses. They may be verbal or physical

Expressive patterns are typically reinforced in childhood or modeled after someone, such as a parent.

• essential counseling microskill.
• Aim to grow the confidence of your clients by sharing knowledge or teaching skills they can use for a lifetime. This empowerment will enable your clients to make informed decisions about their healthcare.
• Discourage random internet searching or “googling” for information.

• essential counseling microskill using critical thinking.
• The client explains her current problem. The counselor discerns how the client interprets the issue, how she views it as a part of her life. The counselor then provides a fresh perspective on the problem, often surprising the client.
• Ideally, your reframing/redirecting will elicit a positive response in which the client has a fresh way of looking at her problem.
• use of reframing/redirecting involves exposure of strengths.

As you summarize, you meld together what the client is saying with your observations, also considering what hasn’t been spoken.

• it ensures that you correctly understood his story.
• organizes the client’s communication
• gives validity to your client’s feelings and experiences.

concept in which the client projects their feelings on the therapist

occurs when feelings are aroused in the therapist by the client. These feelings are related to the therapist's unresolved conflict from past or present relationships rather than the actual therapeutic relationship with the client. I

Unacceptable feelings are sent to the unconscious

Helping others to avoid unacceptable personal feelings

Uncomfortable feelings are expressed in a humorous method

Modifies unacceptable feelings to be more socially acceptable

Unacceptable feelings are not dealt with

Behaving in a socially unacceptable way to avoid feelings

Separating into two opposite constructs

Reverting back to an earlier self

Refusing to accept reality

Converting an unacceptable outcome into a reasonable explanation

Coverting unacceptable feelings into their opposite

Attributing unacceptable feelings to others

Feelings are redirected at others to releave tension created by those feelings

Acting like someone else

Thinking rather than feeling

Removing one's self from emotions

Acting in a right way to reverse wrong behavior