Introduction to Helping
Includes your strengths and weaknesses, thoughts and beliefs, emotions, and sources of motivation
Helps you understand other people and how they view you and your actions
What is Self-Awareness?
Brief daily verbal, non verbal or behavioral indignities that convey rude or derogatory messages, whether intentional or unintentional, to people of color. Subtle forms of racism
What are racial microaggressions?
Used to start a conversation
To help clients explore
Begin with "What..Why...How"
What is Open Ended Question?
This tool measures different aspects of your well-being including relationships, spirituality, finances, etc
What is Wheel of Wellness?
An advantage that a person is born into or receives without explicitly doing anything for it
What is privilege?
"Uh-huh" "Yeah" "Go on"
What are encouragers?
An introspective, self-report questionnaire
Indicates psychological preferences in how people interact with world around them
What is MBTI?
The combination of prejudice and institutional power to discriminate against a group of people
What is Oppression?
Skill that consists of "I feel your pain."
I can place myself in my client's shoes.
What is Empathy?
MBTI Type that is:
Present-focus
Process information through the five senses
Concrete & literal
What is Sensing?
A negative judgment based without fact
What is prejudice?
“My son is perfect. He just does not respect me”
“That question does not bother me” (client states with flushed face and closed fist)
What is Discrepancy?
MBTI Type:
Relying on facts and figures to make decisions
What is Thinking?
Activity related to understanding relationships and the client in relation to their family of origin.
Information gathering
What is genogram?
4 essential components:
A sentence stem
Key words
Essence of what the client had said
Checkout for accuracy
What is Paraphrase?