Microskills Hiearchy
The foundation of intentional counseling and psychotherapy. They are the communication skill units of the counselor/client session that provide specific alternatives for you to use with many types of clients and all theories of counseling and therapy.
What are microskills?
When the individual enters counseling, the counselor discusses the agenda for the day with their client, the activities, and the processes that they will go through. This technique in counseling will help the client understand their counselor’s train of thought into determining how this routine will work for them. Soon enough, the client will get used to the routine, and this establishes comfort and trust in counseling.
What is structuring?
SOLER
S: Sit square and face the person
O: Open posture
L: Leaning forward
E: Eye Contact
R: Remained relaxed
ttending skills
This assessment tool will get the individual to look at areas of their life and see which areas may be impacting and influencing them. The person’s job is to figure out which systems in their life give them strength, and which ones give them stress. S
What is Spheres of Influence:
the ability to enter the world of the client and to communicate that we understand his or her world as the client sees and experiences it
What is empathy?
Summarizes the successive steps of intentional counseling and psychotherapy.
What is the microskill hierarchy?
Counselors use this technique to show their clients that they are fully aware of the feelings that their client is experiencing. They 4 can do this by using exact words and phrases that their client is expressing to them.
What are Reflection of Feelings?
This will help the counselor avoid any misconceptions or avoid them having to make any assumptions that could hinder their feedback
What is Clarification
Nonverbal behavior, verbal behavior, conflict discrepancies.
What are three items to observe?
Gives the client control of the content, pace and objectives.
This includes the counselor listening to silences as well as words, sitting with them and recognizing that the silences may facilitate the counselling process.
What is silence
considered critical for client growth and change.
What is empathic confrontation?
Questions which can’t be answered in a few words. They encourage others to talk and provide you with maximum information.
What are open questions?
A variety of verbal and nonverbal means the counselor or psychotherapist can use to encourage others to continue talking. They include head nods, an open palm, “uh-huh,” and the repetition of key words the client has uttered.
What are encouragers?
feed back to the client the essence of what has just been said by shortening and clarifying client comments.
What is paraphrases?
In essence, this is a sense of having a connection with the person, whatever model of counselling the counselor is working with.
What is Rapport?
elaborate on possibilities for influencing clients more directly, particularly in the restorying phase of the conversation.
What is interpretation/reframing, reflection of meaning, feedback, and self- disclosure?
Facial Expression o Eye cues o Posture and Gestures o Behavioral Discrepancies
What are Non-Verbal Communications?
focus on the limbic HPA as being the first to react, before the TAP executive prefrontal cortex, supports the idea that reflection of feeling is the most valuable listening skill after attending behavior (if one isn’t attending, feelings will not be observed).
What is neuroscience?
"you feel ____ because______
What is a reflective statement (or empathy statement)?
They are similar to paraphrases except that a longer time and more information are involved. Attention is also given to emotions and feelings as they are expressed by the client
What iare summarizations?
This allows for the client to self-examine themselves during counseling.
What is Confrontation:
These theorists believe that actions are determined largely by life experiences.
What is Psychodynamic Theory
?
Visual/eye contact. Vocal qualities. Verbal tracking. Body language
What are four aspects of attending behavior?