Solution Focused Brief
A technique used to have clients rate their priorities, goals, satisfaction, problems, coping strategies, successes, motivation for change, safety, confidence, treatment progress, and hope on a numerical scale from 1–10
What is scaling?
A technique that can help your client communicate their concerns, feelings, and needs without blaming others or sounding threatening. It helps them get their point across without causing the listener to shut down.
What are "I-messages"?
A technique originating in gestalt therapy in which the client conducts an emotional dialogue with some aspect of himself or herself or some significant person (e.g., a parent), who is imagined to be a part of the session.
What is the Empty Chair Technique?
This technique refers generally to a counselor's sharing of personal information to clients during or outside the counseling session
For example, if the client is anxious about requesting a raise at work, the therapist would share a story about when she requested a raise.
What is Self-Disclosure?
The internal narrative you hold about yourself. It’s your inner voice and you may or may not have spent much time thinking about it or giving it any attention. This internal narrative can actually have a much bigger influence on the way we see ourselves, and the world around us than we realize. In therapy we teach clients ways to change the internal messages.
What is self-talk?
Questions that provide clients with the opportunity to identify times when things have been different for them. Example: Tell me about times when you don't get angry. Tell me about times you felt the happiest
What are exception questions?
This technique helps a client to bypass potential resistance to change by neutralizing some of the perceived risk. For example, changing how you act at work, like arriving early, speaking up more in meetings and socializing with co-workers, can have an effect on how you feel about your job, which in turn can improve your job performance.
What is "acting as if"?
A highly relaxing technique that involves the voluntary control of your breath in and out of the nostrils.
What is deep breathing?
A technique that is an open, honest identification of the client's self- defeating patterns or manipulations. The counselor shares how those inappropriate behaviors produce negative consequences in interpersonal relationships
What is confrontation?
A technique used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify automatic thoughts and replace them with more balanced thoughts.
What is reframing?
A technique that involves spending some time talking with clients about aspects of their lives that are not problematic. This creates an opportunity to connect with the client as a person, and to note their positive aspects which we may miss by focusing only on the problem
What is problem-free talk?
The purpose of this technique is for the counselor to point out the client's irrational or maladaptive behavior and make them aware of why they are doing it. The counselor's goal is to make this behavior appear less appealing to the client, which will then, hopefully, decrease the occurrence.
What is "spitting in the soup"?
A technique that reduces stress and anxiety in your body by having you slowly tense and then relax each muscle. The theory behind this exercise is that you cannot have the feeling of relaxation and warm well-being in your body and at the same time experience anxiety symptoms.
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation Training (PMRT)?
A therapeutic approach employing books and other forms of literature, typically alongside more traditional therapy modalities, to support a patient's mental health.
What is Bibliotherapy?
A technique used to treat extreme aversions through a combination of graded exposure and relaxation. It is an evidence-based behavioral intervention that is focused on helping clients overcome common fears or phobias.
What is systematic desensitization?
A technique that asks the client to imagine and discuss a possible world where problems are removed and issues addressed (Strong & Pyle, 2009). The question may take various forms, such as asking the client, “Assume your problem has been solved.
What is the miracle question?
In this technique the child first tells a story, the therapist analyzes the psychodynamic meaning of the story, and then tells one of his own. The therapist's story contains the same characters and a similar setting, but healthier adaptions and resolutions of conflicts.
What is Mutual Storytelling?
This technique helps client to be aware of internal thoughts, feelings, and emotions, as well as external surroundings and situations, without automatic responses such as judgment or stress.
What is Mindfulness Meditation?
This technique is the process of writing down our thoughts and feelings about our personal experiences. This kind of private reflection allows us to sort through events that have occurred and problems that we may be struggling with. It allows us to come to a deeper understanding about ourselves, with a different perspective on these difficulties.
What is Journaling?
A behavioral approach in which conditioned reinforcers (points, tokens, or money) are withdrawn to suppress a response, has been used as a behavior therapy technique on its own and in conjunction with reinforcement in token economies.
What is response cost?
A technique ordinarily implemented during termination that facilitates clients' thinking about situations during which the positive outcomes and strategies learned during counseling may not work, and gets clients thinking ahead of time about what should be done in those circumstances.
What is flagging the minefield?
A cognitive technique that consists of persuading a patient to engage in his or her most feared behavior. In the context of insomnia, this type of therapy is premised on the idea that performance anxiety inhibits sleep onset.
What is Paaradoxical Intention?
A relaxation technique that involves dwelling on a positive mental image or scene
What is visual/guided imagery?
A talk therapy technique that guides you toward a retelling of your personal history of traumas, stressors, and pain with more emphasis on yourself as a survivor than as a victim, and more emphasis on your strengths and survival skills than on your weakness.
What is strength bombardment?
This technique (or the differential probability hypothesis) refers to reinforcing a target behavior by awarding some privilege to engage in a more desired behavior afterward.
What is the Premack Principle?