Earlier Microskills
Involves noticing clients' non-verbal behaviors
What is observation skills?
Maps that show a client's family history
What are genograms?
A communication barrier or "stuck point" between client and therapy that a counselor should roll with.
What is resistance?
Holocaust survivor and author of Man's Search for Meaning
Who is Viktor Frankl?
They can be abbreviated as TLCs
The very foundation of the hierarchical pyramid (or the first microskills)
What are ethics, multicultural competence, and positive psychology?
Examples include school, work, family, and friends
What are clients' systems?
Include contradictions and mixed messages in what a client says
What are internal conflicts?
The type of therapy that focuses on bringing out people's meaning in life.
What is logotherapy?
The process of formation of new neurons and neural connections
What is neurogenesis?
What is reflection feelings/ reflections?
This describes the WHAT or the FACTS about what someone is sharing with you
What is content?
Include unrealistic explanations or mistaken claims about the outside world or about other people
What are external conflicts?
They highlight important themes or patterns in one's life
What are interpretations?
When a counselor projects their own feelings or reactions on a client
What is countertransference?
The simple act of listening to a client and tracking their thoughts and feelings
What is attending?
Describes the HOW or the flow of experiences of what someone is sharing with you.
What is process?
The steps include listening, summarizing, and evaluating.
What are the steps of confrontation?
It is central to behaviors, thoughts, and feelings
What is meaning?
What is chronic stress?
Using minimal signals when listening to a client (e.g., head nods, "mhms")
What is encouraging?
A term that considers the various parts of ourselves as we exist and interact within our different contexts and systems.
What is self-in-relation?
An event that changes the client's cooperation with the counselor.
What is a rupture?
Include awareness, insight, "a ha" moment
What are the benefits of eliciting meaning?
It reduces power differentials between client and counselor and is humanizing.
What is counselor self-disclosure?