Approaches
This therapeutic technique is more of an approach than a technique...
What is Client Advocacy?
The process that allows problems to be viewed in a more positive constructive way...
What is Reframing?
This 10 Stage Model outlines the steps needed to help counselors utilize a Strength-Based Counseling Approach...
What is Smith's 10 Stage Model?
This technique helps clients develop intrinsic motivation to change and accomplish counseling goals...
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This technique helps clients create a more positive story and externalize problems...
What is Narrative Therapy?
The second phase of Narrative Therapy where the client creates an alternative storyline that specifies the skills needed to live in a preferred manner that contradicts the end to which the problems lead in the past...
What is Construction?
The First Phase of Narrative Therapy helps separate client's problems from their identity...
What is Deconstructing?
A positive pep talk that a person gives to oneself each day...
What is Self-Talk?
Counselors help their clients develop resilience and tap into their own resources when issues arise...
What is Strengths-Based Counseling?
I was once viewed as problematic, but now I am referred to in a much more positive light...
What is an Adaptive Behavior?
This Model has two creators and focuses on 5 different domains in a client's life...
Search Model
Clients can write in me and express and externalize their thoughts, feelings, and needs...
What is a Journal?
Made popular in the 1980s, this Counseling Approach is brief and focuses on what works for the client...
What is Solution-Focused Brief Counseling?
This tool is used to represent different parts of a client's life...
What is the Tree of Life?
The counselor uses positive affirmations to help clients achieve a sense of mastery over direct, indirect, and self compliments...
What is the STRENGTH Model?
Not to be confused with what you see on a fashion runway, I am a process where individuals learn from watching others...
What is Modeling?
More of an exercise used in mindfulness techniques this exercise can be traced back to Hindu Yoga traditions...
What is Deep Breathing?
I was developed by a counselor and my owner to provide direction for the next step in our Self-Advocacy plan...
What is an Action Plan?
The last step in implementing an Advocacy plan with your client...
What is Taking Action?
An operant conditioning theory which states that higher probability behaviors may act as reinforcers for lower probability behaviors.
What is the Premack Principle?