Involves simply looking at the person in a natural way, without “glaring” or “staring.” Some breaks are perfectly natural, while still maintaining a focus on the client.
What is eye contact?
can be answered with one or a small number of words (e.g., “Do you like school?”),
What are Closed ended questions?
Head nods and “uh-huhs” are examples of these
What are encouragers?
Involves promoting the interests or cause of someone or a group of people
What is advocacy?
typically includes information about client characteristics, identified problems and their assessment, goals, interventions, services rendered, and documentation of progress.
What is documentation?
in this stage of change, clients have not yet begun to think about changing and giving up addictive or problematic behavior
What is precontemplation?
Helps people learn how to cope with daily substance use triggers and risk situations.
What is Structured relapse prevention (SRP)?
Typically includes facing a client directly and leaning slightly toward the client, with a comfortable posture and arms unfolded, not slouching and not ramrod straight.
What is body language?
cannot be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no', and instead require the respondent to elaborate on their points.
What are open ended question?
may also be used at the end of an extended interaction of a topic just discussed in an interview before transitioning into another topic.
What are summarizations?
A person who argues for, recommends, or supports a cause or policy.
What is an Advocate?
•Excessive sadness or moodiness: Long-lasting sadness, mood swings, and unexpected rage.
•Hopelessness: Feeling a deep sense of hopelessness about the future, with little expectation that circumstances can improve.
•Sleep problems.
•Sudden calmness: Suddenly becoming calm after a period of depression or moodiness can be a sign that the person has made a decision to end his or her life.
What are Suicide Warning Signs?
The following are three examples:
The client places unrealistic demands on you.
A client admires you and tells you how much you remind them of their best friend.
A client displaces anger onto you during a session when talking about his abusive parent.
What is transference?
a relationship an ADMH worker might have with a client or former client outside the professional or therapeutic relationship
What is a dual relationship?
Rephrasing the main content of the client’s message (usually in a shortened form) to clarify the essence of what he or she has just said.
What is Paraphrasing?
Including volume, pitch, and pace or speed of talking.
What are paralinguistics or vocal qualities?
caused by an indirect exposure to trauma
What is Secondary or Vicarious trauma?
refers to an individual's ability to effectively communicate, convey, negotiate or assert his or her own interests, desires, needs, and rights
What is Self-advocacy?
a document that supports and guides someone when they are experiencing thoughts of suicide, to help them avoid a state of intense suicidal crisis.
What is a Safety Plan?
Most people in this stage of change are planning to take action and are making the final adjustments before they begin to change their behavior. Have not yet resolved their AMBIVALENCE. Still need a little convincing.
What is preparation?
Teaching client systems to negotiate and ________ for themselves may result in mutually agreeable solutions and growth and attitude change on the part of the client.
What is mediation?
May be defined as the verbal and nonverbal counseling skills that communicate the therapeutic conditions, show clients that counselors are focusing their attention on them and what they have to say, facilitate strong therapeutic relationships, and encourage and reward continued client communication
What are attending skills?
taking a moment to reflect on what has been communicated in order to think about what to say in response, accepting that a few moments of silence will be okay.
What is the use of silence?
refers to the profound emotional and physical exhaustion that helping professionals and caregivers can develop over the course of their career as helpers.
What is Compassion fatigue or now more commonly referred to as Empathic Strain?
includes services that seek to represent the rights and interests of a person or group of people concentrate their efforts on just one or two individuals.
What is individual advocacy?
an administrative and educational process used extensively in social agencies to help social workers further develop and refine their skills, enhance staff morale, and provide quality assurance for the clients”
What is Supervision?
when you as the clinician transfer your feelings onto your client. Often clinicians don’t realize when this happens.
What is Countertransference?
refers to a way of responding to crime, or to other types of wrongdoing, injustice or conflict, that focuses primarily on repairing the damage caused by the wrongful action and restoring, insofar as possible, the well-being of all those involved.
What is Restorative Justice?
which refers to the delay from the time that a client finishes speaking until the counselor begins a response
What is latency in speaking?
self help, support, psychotherapy & task
What are types of groups
governs the manner in which personal health information may be collected, used and disclosed within the health sector in Ontario.
What is PHIPA?
is about changing policies, laws or rules that impact how someone lives their life. These efforts can be targeted at a local, state, or national agency. The focus can be changing laws, or simply written or unwritten policy. What is targeted depends on the type of problem and who has authority over the problem
What is systems advocacy?
the people, places and things that have the potential to lead to a relapse.
What are triggers?
Stage where people overtly modify their behavior and their surroundings. Make the move for which they have been preparing. Requires the greatest commitment of time and energy.
What is Action?
activities and practices that we can engage in on a regular basis to reduce stress and maintain and enhance our short- and longer-term health and well-being.
What is self care?
In this Stage of change clients acknowledge that they have a problem and begin to think about solving it. Clients struggle to understand their problems, to see its causes, and wonder about possible solutions. Many clients have indefinite plans to take action within the next few months.
What is contemplation?
The Stages of Change are a part of this broader model
What is the Trans Theoretical Model or TTM
This person said "A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden -- but it's there."
Who is Gabor Mate?
Change never ends with action. Without a strong commitment to this stage, there will surely be relapse, usually to precontemplation or contemplation stage.
What is maintenance
13 Chickens
What is the number of chickens Sam owns?
definition in psychology is when a client redirects their feelings from a significant other or person in their life to the clinician.
What is Transference?
a situation in which the helper, in addition to her/his professional relationship, has one or more other relationships with the client, whether this occurs prior to, during or following the provision of professional services
What is a Dual Relationship?