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?
A type of therapy that views dysfunctional behavior as resulting from maladaptive thinking and emphasizes the empirical evaluation of treatment principles and techniques.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
SOLER
S: Sit square and face the person
O: Open posture
L: Leaning forward
E: Eye Contact
R: Remained relaxed
What are Attending 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.
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?
will help you and the client to see cultural and contextual issues related to their concerns.
What is focusing?
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
Type of family therapy defines the family's problem in overt behavioral terms and uses problem-solving solutions acceptable to all members. Each family member is considered involved in the symptom. Treatment emphasizes learning and communications skill training is a common feature.
What is Behavioral Family Therapy?
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 can use to encourage others to continue talking. They include head nods, an open palm, “uh-huh,” and the repetition of keywords 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
Eye cues
Posture and Gestures
Behavioral Discrepancies
What are Non-Verbal Communications?
When a person enters therapy, they should voice their opinions about counseling and their beliefs about treatment. In the beginning, they should be able to communicate with their counselor as to what they expect to get out of counseling. This can help the counselor guide and direct their counseling accordingly
What is client expectations?
"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 types of questions are used as a technique by counselors to help their clients answer how, why, and what.
What are Open-Ended Questions?
Visual/eye contact, Vocal qualities, Verbal tracking, and Body language are the....
What are four aspects of attending behavior?
The family therapy approach identified by Minuchin is directed primarily toward changing family structure (organization) to alter the dysfunctional behaviors of its members.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
This technique involves the counselor assessing their client’s level of needs based on the progress that they are making. The needs that they will factor in are physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, self-esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.
What is Hierarchy of Needs?