Exploration Skills
The goal of the exploration stage is to
What is gain understanding and clarity about what the client perceives to be the issue & build safety & trust
Insight is necessary for
What is (any of the following are correct)
- Help create a sense of coherence
- Discover new facts and recognize thier significance
- Make different choices in the future
- Transcend suffering
- Finding meaning in existence
Action stage rationale
What is (Either of the following would be correct)
- Clients seek help to feel better or to change specific behaviors, thoughts, or feelings
- Taking action is crucial for consolidating new thinking patterns learned in the insight stage
True or False: Hill's (2020) model of Helping skills indicates that exploration, insight, and action happen in a linear fashion.
False
DAILY DOUBLEThis helping skill requires the helper to identify, clarify, highlight, and verbalize the clients stated or implied feelings
What is Reflection of Feelings
Goals of Insight
What is
- Challenging to foster awareness
- Facilitating Insight
- Working with the therapeutic relationship
-Identify underlying themes & patterns
Information, Feedback, Direct Guidance, Process Advisement, Disclosure of Strategies are what?
What are action stage skills
Clients often use these to avoid difficult feelings or change
What is defense mechanisms
Providing emotional support and validation to a client to indicate that the helper empathizes with clients, or suggests that the clients' feelings are normal is known as
What is Approval-Reassurance
A few signs that a client is NOT ready for insight include
What is engages in non-reflective storytelling, asks for advice, and blames others for their problems is considered
One marker for action is
Client is stuck in insight and is not making changes in life
One way that therapy may hinder clients
Give them enough skills to tolerate unhealthy situations
These four skills are used during the exploration stage to explore thoughts, feelings, and narratives in more depth
What are restatements, summaries, open questions, and probes
"You said that you were fine with the way your friend treated you, but I noticed you also started crying." What is this skill?
What is a Challenge
DAILY DOUBLE
Four action tasks
What is relaxation, behavior change, behavioral rehearsal, and decision making
Helpers may make a ____ for clients that fall outside their scope of practice, and facilitate a ____ when a client switches to someone else for treatment
What is Referral and Transfer
This model emphasizes that empathy, warmth, and genuineness are especially important during the exploration stage
What is the humanistic/Person-Centered approach
This major theoretical approach heavily influences Hill’s Insight Stage skills
What is psychodynamic
This skill helps clients understand how their behaviors are impacting themselves, others, or therapy
What is giving feedback
DAILY DOUBLE
True or False: Emotions, cognitions, and behaviors are all key components of personality.
What is True
This type of listening involves focusing fully on the client’s words, tone, and body language without planning your next response.
What is active listening
DAILY DOUBLE
This skill focuses specifically on how the client relates/responds to the helper in the here-and-now.
What is immediacy.
“Let’s take a deep breath together” or “Try saying that to the empty chair” are examples of this skill
Process Advisement
Autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity are all
Ethical principles in counseling