Micro-Skills
This refers to a collection of counselling skills that allow clinicians to build a rapport and begin the therapeutic process.
What are microskills?
These are individual principles we live by that define our beliefs about right and wrong
A therapeutic intervention that involves behaviour change by changing one's thoughts, and feelings.
What is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)?
Sharing your own personal experience
related to what the client has said.
What is self-disclosure?
This refers to the process by which a counsellor focuses on the client's emotional experience and mirrors that back to the client.
What is reflection of feelings?
This refers to a social construct that has no biological basis, but yet can be very powerful and impact one's life in many ways.
What is race?
The process by which a clinician may provide information and education to their clients in order to help them make life changes.
What is psychoeducation?
The basic process used for gathering data, providing information and suggestions to clients, and offering workable alternatives for resolving concerns.
What is interviewing/
This makes up the foundation of the five-stage microskills sesion.
What is an empathic relationship?
This refers to a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.
What is a crisis?
Providing an alternative frame of reference about a client story.
What is interpretation and reframing?
Zooming in on the client's concern, the contextual dimension, and attending to the theme
What is focusing?
This refers to the framework within which the therapist/client relationship occurs. This framework makes the relationship professional, and safe for the client, and set the parameters within which psychological services are delivered
What are boundaries?
The process by which a client identifies their life meaning and goals.
What is discernment?
This therapeutic intervention focuses on more deep-seated difficulties, which often require more time for resolution
What is psychotherapy?
Understanding the client's values and worldview are important when engaging in this microskill.
What is reflection of meaning?
Involving your client as an equal partner in their treatment by accounting for their individual needs and preferences
What is person-centered care?
Instructional strategies that are oriented to physical and mental health, bringing together neuroscience,
medicine, and counseling
What are therapeutic lifestyle changes?
This encompasses several microskills including asking questions, listening, observation skills, encouraging +paraphrasing+summarizing, and reflection of feelings.
What is the basic listening sequence?