Counselling Micro-skills
A question that is designed to encourage a full, meaningful answer using the person's own knowledge and/or feelings -it is a basic way to gather information.
What is an Open-ended question
A professional ethical standard ensuring the privacy of the client-clinician communications, with special exceptions.
What is Confidentiality
Understanding the emotional perspective of another person and communicating this understanding.
Empathy
Who is the founder of Psychoanalysis?
Who is Freud
What does the "C" in C-PTSD stand for?
What is Complex
It is a skill to “warm up’ the client, to collect the scattered thoughts and feelings of the clients, to bring a discussion to an end, to focus on a particular theme.
What is this skill called?
Summarizing
Respecting the client’s independence, right to self-determination, and personal freedom.
What is Autonomy
An effective skill in counselling. It allows clients time to address feelings, gather their thoughts, and it respects the pace the client may need to go. It is a skill that often makes counsellors uncomfortable.
D.I.D was previously known by what name?
What is Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
Phobias, Social, Generalized, and Separation are all subcategories of what mental health condition
A way of restating someone's words and ideas in your own words. It shows the client we have heard and understood them.
What is Paraphrasing
The common law obligation requiring a counsellor to report to authorities or notify an identifiable third party when there are reasonable grounds to believe there is an imminent risk of serious harm or death is known as
What is Duty to Warn
What year was motivational interviewing created?
What is: 1983
When clients are forced to go to counselling by the court they are called these types of clients
A form of communication that includes physical appearance, body posture, gestures, movements, and facial expressions.
What is non-verbal communication
When a counsellor lacks competence in an area, they must do one of these two things
What are refer out or seek supervision/training?
A clinicians' purposeful sharing o their own personal demographic information, experiences and reactions with clients.
What is Self-disclosure
What are the three core conditions of Person-Centred Counselling, as espoused by Carl Rogers?
empathy
unconditional positive regard
congruence
The process of helping clients discover personal strengths and capacities so that they are able to take control over their lives
What is empowerment
The general term applied to a group of skills that clinicians use to help clients gain new perspectives and shift their ways of thinking about a situation, opening up new possibilities and potential solutions.
What is reframing
This step requires counsellors to examine their own values and biases.
What is self-reflection
Provides direction and clarity for both client and therapist.
What is: Goal Setting
_________created Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which has been shown to be effective at treating____________
Marcia Linehan created Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, which has been shown to be effective at treating Borderline Personality Disorder.
Mental processes or reactions that shield a person from undesirable or unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or conclusions that, if accepted, would create anxiety or challenges to one's sense of self.
What are Defense Mechanisms