Helping and Problems
Ingredients of Helping
Narrative/Solution Focus
Motivational Int/Mindfulness
Systemic/IFS
100
This therapist action is first and foremost about the person seeking to resolve problem situations.
What is HELPING?
100
The basic principle: A solid set of interpersonal skills along with expression acceptance, warmth, and empathy are used to create a connection with the client.
What is THE PERSON OF THE THERAPIST?
100
The time period Solution-based therapist focus on.
What is the future?
100
A directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence
What is Motivational Interviewing?
100
Protective Parts, proactive and reactive.
What are Fire-Fighters and Managers?
200
Clients feel that they do not have the resources needed to cope with THESE adequately. If they have tried solutions, they have not worked.
What is a PROBLEM SITUATION?
200
Generally speaking, if client and helper are a collaborative team, the three goals or outcomes listed at the beginning of this chapter are more likely to be achieved
What is the HELPING RELATIONSHIP?
200
Solution-based therapist search for these situations in the client's problem story.
What are exceptions?
200
This drive to change is elicited from the client, and not imposed from without. It is a readiness to change generated through interpersonal interaction.
What is Motivation?
200
Our source of calmness, curiosity, clarity, compassion, confidence, creativity, courage, and connectedness.
What is the SELF?
300
These are OPPORTUNITIES for learning! THESE arise in our interactions with ourselves, with others, and with the social settings, organizations, and institutions of life
What is a PROBLEM?
300
Skills as attending, listening, understanding what clients are saying about themselves, responding to clients with understanding, helping clients explore their concerns more fully, helping them stay focused, and helping clients develop new perspectives on their problem situations and unused opportunities
What are COMMUNICATION SKILLS?
300
In Narrative Therapy: The act of separating people from problems; the problem is the problem.
What is Externalizing?
300
Doing on thing at a time, in the present moment, with your full attention, and with acceptance.
What is Mindfulness?
300
An IFS therapist must first earn the trust of the protectors to help a client address these:
What is an Exile?
400
The school of thinking captured by this quote: " Our message is to remind our field that psychology is not just the study of pathology, weakness, and damage; it is also the study of strength and virtue. Treatment is not just fixing what is broken; it is nurturing what is best."
What is POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY?
400
In therapy, two things need to be monitored carefully and continually—progress toward life-enhancing client outcomes and the degree to which therapy sessions are contributing to these outcomes
What is TWO-WAY FEEDBACK BETWEEN CLIENT AND HELPER?
400
One of the Narrative Therapist's main goals is to help client's identify this:
What is Preferred Reality?
400
Simply being aware of your experience without judging it.
What is Acceptance?
400
A systemic assessment should minimally include examination of relationship patterns within these three contexts.
What is Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Social Cultural?
500
Helpers are driven by these: Life enhancing outcomes. Learning how to help oneself. Developing a prevention mentality.
What are the THREE PRINCIPAL OUTCOMES?
500
When clients accomplish life enhancing outcomes.
What is SUCCESS?
500
In Narrative Therapy, the therapist listens for “gaps” in clients’ understanding and asks them to fill in the details or has them explain the ambiguities in their stories.
What is Deconstructive Listening?
500
THIS Mindfulness approach requires constant attention to relationships between clients and staff. People are encouraged to work out problems in their relationships with their therapist and the therapists to do the same with them.
What is a Collaborative Approach?
500
The main goal of a systemic therapist is to disrupt these:
What are Relationship Patterns?
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