Exploration Skills
Using Skills Together
Cultural Consideration
100

This type of behavior involves maintaining eye contact, proper posture, and verbal following to show attentiveness during a client session.

What is attending behavior?

100

Practitioners should do this when necessary to adapt to different client needs and prove a well-rounded approach during sessions.

What is combine skills?

100

In social work, this approach focuses on helping clients resolve their problems while being mindful of their cultural background.

What is cultural competence?

200

These types of questions, beginning with words like "who", "what", or "why," encourage clients to open up and share more about their concerns.

What are open questions?

200

Combining skills such as attending behavior, questioning, and reflecting feelings and content can be useful in learning about the client and building rapport

What is the importance of combining skills?

200

This cultural influence refers to a client's identification with a particular group based on skin color, language, and shared history.

What are ethnicity and race?

300

This exploration skill helps bring awareness to the client's concerns by summarizing or paraphrasing what they have shared.

What is reflecting content?

300

To be more effective in client communication, practitioners should avoid relying on just one or two of these during interactions. 

What are exploration skills? 

300

Factors such as ethnicity and race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, national origin, and gender.


What are cultural influences?

400

This skill involves helping clients recognize emotions by focusing on their underlying feelings during conversations. 

What is reflecting feelings?

400

Includes gaining mastery of each skill, trying to avoid relying only on a few skills, and combining skills when needed.

What are the steps of using skills together?

400

This factor refers to a client's position in the life cycle, from childhood to old age, and can significantly influence their perspectives and needs.

What is age/generation?