Solution Focused Therapy
Basic Listening Sequence
Counselling Techniques
Client-Counsellor Relationship
Wild Card!
100
The purpose of this type of question is to help shift the focus of the session from ‘the problem’ to a focus on what the client sees as the desired outcome.
What is a miracle question?
100
Eye contact, body language and comfortable distance.
What is attending behaviours
100
Understand and grasp the client’s view of situation Acknowledge and accept the client’s view Introduce ambiguity and suggest alternative meaning that is more workable, but does not suggest the client give up their view Suggest alternative behavior based on the alternate meaning
What are the four essential components of an effective reframe?
100
These clients want something and see themselves as part of the solution
What is a customer
100
Genuineness Timely Benefit to the client
What are the keys to effective self-disclosure
200
These types of questions often assign a "rating" to a problem, or in regards to where a client currently stands on a topic.
What is a scaling question?
200
"Tell me more about that experience for you?"
What is an open-ended question
200
These highlight what ‘makes sense’ about the thoughts, feelings or behavior being described by your client given the context, antecedents and/or client history
What are validation statements
200
These clients say someone else other than them needs to change
What is a complainant.
200
During this process we should ensure we are discussing progress made/goals achieved during the therapy relationship, discussing goals/aims for the client moving forward in order to maintain/consolidate gains made during therapy, and overall feelings about the relationship ending
What is termination
300
One of the major differences between brief therapy and traditional therapy.
Why is solution focused therapy unconcerned with the cause of a problem?
300
Mmhhmm.....ahhhh.....go on....
What are encouragers?
300
Being genuine, honest and transparent Showing consistency between your ‘internal response and external communication’
What is congruence?
300
These clients may not share the view that they have a problem
What is a visitor
300
These form the steps of the Skilled Helper Model.
What is the current picture; the preferred picture, and the way forward.
400
These questions assess pre-session change.
What is exception finding questions?
400
It sounds like the prospect of leaving home is really scary and you worry that people will forget about you when you are gone.
What is reflection of feeling?
400
“Understanding the client’s experiences and feelings as if they were your own, but without losing the ‘as if’ quality”
What is empathy?
400
Best practices for working with this type of client are to: -be genuine, sincere and respectful about the client’s perceptions -hold the client accountable for their perceptions -find out what the client may be willing to do rather than our subjective thoughts about what we think he or she should do -compliment the client on taking the time and making the effort to come into session
What is working with visitors
400
There are two types, one type pays attention to a particular aspect of a client's life, the other do something which the practitioner believes will be useful in building a solution
What is observational and behavioural suggestions.
500
These sessions are used when a client cannot find any exceptions.
What are coping questions?
500
So you are seeking help for your anxiety around your fear of failure, we discussed your goals being that you want to lessen your anxiety, and your homework this week is to focus on practicing mindfulness for 10 minutes a day, coupled with your homework in the mind over mood book, does that sound about right?
What is summarization?
500
Identifying key facts and thoughts about the situation Identifying central emotions about the situation Providing an overall summary of the situation
What is the goal of the basic listening sequence?
500
This is an example of session-ending feedback.
What is "as we wrap up here today Alison, I just want to compliment you on all of the work you have done prior to meeting with me today to try to address your anxiety. Your efforts to do things like change your sleep patterns and exercise at least 3 days a week show your commitment to reduce your anxiety and suggests a really good sense of personal insight and discipline. Since you’ve done so much great work on your own, much of what I am going to suggest to you is based on what you have described to me today – because it seems to be working"
500
This consists of having your client fill out two forms every session – one at the beginning of the session and one at the end of the session. The idea is to allow the feedback you are receiving from these forms to shape the progress of your sessions in order to ensure the best possible outcomes.
What is the FIT model?
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