The Pillars
What do you see? What do you hear?
All about therapy
In your feelings
Skill Master
100

Maintaining confidentiality, obtaining informed consent, and staying within boundaries of competence are example of this type of practice.

What is ethical practice?

100

Maintaining eye contact, speaking with a warm tone and leaning forward in your seat when speaking to clients are all examples of this type of behavior. 

What are positive attending behaviors?

100

The single most frequent commonality for successful psychotherapy.

What is the therapeutic relationship or alliance?

100

This skill is similar to paraphrasing with a focus on feelings. 

What is reflection of feeling?

100

How and what are used as openers for this type of questions.

What are open questions?

200

Religion, ethnicity, sexual identity, trauma, family background, among others are all part of this model to conceptualize multi-cultural identity.

What is the ADDRESSING model?

200

head nods, smiling, and minimal word utterances are all examples of this skill.

What is encouraging?

200

Changes to habits around sleep, nutrition, exercise, among others are often addressed in therapy and are referred as this. 

What are therapeutic life changes?

200

This emotion orients us to violation of group values and moves us to make amends.

What is shame?

200

The following are components of this skill: sentence stem, key word, essence of the client's statement, and checkout question.

What is paraphrasing?

300

Everyday, subtle, intentional or unintentional interactions or behaviors that communicate bias are called this.

What are microaggressions?

300

Client smiles while she recalls a traumatic event is an example of this type of discrepancy.


what is discrepancy between verbal and non-verbal behaviors?

300

Empathic relationship, story & strengths, goals, restory, and action are components of this model. 

What is the five stage model?

300

These are examples of social emotions that are highly influenced by cultural norms. 

What is envy, jealousy, shame, guilt?

300

These are used to obtain specific information from clients.

What are closed questions?

400

This structure in the client's brain will react to the tiniest hint of anger or frustration in the facial expressions of the therapist.

What is the amygdala?

400

When the focus in a session shifts to the dynamic between the client and therapist and how they relate to and impact each other.

What is mutual "we" focus?

400

Simple reflective statements that correspond with and can be interchangeable with client’s own statements are all example of this.

What is basic empathy?

400

Violated, provoked, disrespected, bitter are subtypes of this emotion.

What is anger?

400

"On the one hand, you want....one the other hand, you want..." is an example of this skill.

What empathic confrontation?

500

Conformity, dissonance, resistance, introspection, integration are all stages of this model developed by Sue & Sue. 

What is cultural identity development model?

500

These are the five stages of change.

What are Pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance?

500

These are the ultimate goals of psychotherapy according to person-centered therapy?

What is self-actualization and resilience?

500

The when, what, how of feelings is often determined by this.

What is one's culture?

500

"It's hard to be around your partner when they drink. You are scared that they might lash out or even physically hurt you. They've never done that in the past but that's what you know drunk people do. That's when you had to defend your mom from your dad." This example demonstrates this skill.

What is an interpretation?