Exploration Skills
This type of behavior involves maintaining eye contact, proper posture, and verbal following to show attentiveness during a client session.
What is attending behavior?
Practitioners should do this when necessary to adapt to different client needs and prove a well-rounded approach during sessions.
What is combine skills?
In social work, this approach focuses on helping clients resolve their problems while being mindful of their cultural background.
What is cultural competence?
These types of questions, beginning with words like "who", "what", or "why," encourage clients to open up and share more about their concerns.
What are open questions?
Combining skills such as attending behavior, questioning, and reflecting feelings and content can be useful in learning about the client and building rapport
What is the importance of combining skills?
This cultural influence refers to a client's identification with a particular group based on skin color, language, and shared history.
What are ethnicity and race?
This exploration skill helps bring awareness to the client's concerns by summarizing or paraphrasing what they have shared.
What is reflecting content?
To be more effective in client communication, practitioners should avoid relying on just one or two of these during interactions.
What are exploration skills?
Factors such as ethnicity and race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, national origin, and gender.
What are cultural influences?
This skill involves helping clients recognize emotions by focusing on their underlying feelings during conversations.
What is reflecting feelings?
Includes gaining mastery of each skill, trying to avoid relying only on a few skills, and combining skills when needed.
What are the steps of using skills together?
This factor refers to a client's position in the life cycle, from childhood to old age, and can significantly influence their perspectives and needs.
What is age/generation?