Microskills Hierarchy 1
Microskills Hierarchy 2
Microskills Hierarchy 3
Microskills Hierarchy 4
Potpourri
100

At the apex of the microskills pyramid

What is integration of skills and determining your own personal style and theory/theories?

100

1. Empathic relationship 2. Story and strengths 3. Goals 4. Restory 5. Action

What are the five stages in an initial interview?

100

The formal term for including teaching in your interviews is

What is Psychoeducation?

100

Speaks about your capacity to go beyond yourself and successfully apply newly mastered skills to help others.

Transcendence.


100

Is the basic process used for gathering data, providing information and advice to clients, and suggesting workable alternatives for resolving concerns.

What is interviewing?

200

Summarizes the successive steps of intentional counseling and psychotherapy.

What is the microskill hierarchy?

200

Will help you and the client to see cultural and contextual issues related to their concerns.

What is focusing?

200

The Basic Listening Sequence.

What is questioning, observation, encouraging, paraphrasing, summarizing, and reflecting feelings?

200

Are important influencing skills to help clients think about themselves and their situations in new ways.

What is interpretational/reframing and reflection of meaning?

200

Partnering with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

What is coaching?

300

In the microskills hierarchy, the skills rest on this base

What is ethics, multicultural competence, and wellness?

300

Considered critical for client growth and change.

What is empathic confrontation?

300

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?

300

Rests above the base of the microskill hierarchy.

What is attending and empathy skills?

300

True or False?

Rogers and Maslow believed individuals are not capable of overcoming challenges and taking charge of their lives.

False.

They had immense faith in the ability of individuals to overcome challenges and take charge of their lives.

400

Introduction. Awareness, knowledge, and skills. Observation. Multiple applications. Action: key points and practice. Portfolio of competencies and personal reflection. 

What is the microskills teaching and learning framework?

400

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?

400

The five stages of the microskills counseling session.

What is empathic relationship, story and strengths, goals, restory, and action?

400

Support your client with individually and culturally appropriate visuals, vocal quality, verbal tracking, and body language including facial gestures.

What is attending behavior?

400

Whether in interviewing, counseling or psychotherapy, the conversation changes the brain through the development of new neural networks.

What is brain plasticity and neurogenesis?

500
Reflection of Feeling, Encouraging, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing, Open and Closed Questions, Client Observation Skills
What is basic listening sequence?
500

True or False?

All counseling theories use the microskills, but in varying patterns with different goals.

What is true?

500

___________ and __________ will lead us to major changes in the ways we think about counseling and psychotherapy in the next 10 years.

Neuroscience and brain research.

500

The five-stage structure that provides a framework for integrating the microskills into a complete counseling session.

What is empathic relationship-story and strength-goals-restory-action?

500

Emphasizes treatment of more deep-seated issues.

What is psychotherapy?

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