Facilitator Tools
The game we played on the first day of class where we passed an elephant, aid our names and gave a "sign" was an example of this tool.
What is Mirroring
What is countertransference?
The common ground between what a client needs and your agency can provide is needed to create this.
What is a contract?
The understanding that your relationship with the client is the vehicle for change.
What is the Interactional Model?
Telling a client that showing up to a session is rude is an example of this barrier to communication.
What is Shaming
Commenting that a client is walking slowly with their eyes to the floor and that they seem sad is an example of this tool.
What is Saying what you sense?
Wearing a religious symbol as jewelry is an example of this.
What is self-disclosure?
Considering the supports, coping tools and assuming the client has the capacity to heal is called this.
What is the assumption of strength?
The idea that we are all in relationship with one another. I need you and you need me.
What is symbiosis?
Coming to a session but talking about things irrelevant to the reason you wanted therapy.
What is ambivalence?
The acronym to use when deciding when to speak and when to listen.
What is WAIT- Why am I Talking?
When a member of the LGBTQ+ community suggests that a trans person must have top surgery to truly trans male, this in an example of ________ oppression.
What is intracultural oppression?
Making a diagnosis in the first session would likely be used in this model.
What is the medical model?
The complex, often unconscious, feelings that a client has towards the social worker based on the client's own life experiences.
What is transference?
The difficulty of a client to share painful stories is an example of this.
What is an obstacle to communication or engagement?
Breaking down a large goal into smaller, more manageable chunks is called this.
What is partializing?
Knowing that you may struggle working with certain clients or people who have had certain traumas is an example of this.
What is self awareness?
The client's right to understand treatment and how they will be involved in the process.
What is informed consent?
The internal and external factors that clients can draw upon to heal from trauma. The ability to be vulnerable.
What is resilience?
The small, but often regularly occurring, statements or actions that make people in marginalized communities feel misunderstood, invisible or unwelcome.
What are microaggressions?
"How does it feel to be talking to a white therapist after your experience with a white doctor not believing your medical condition?" is an example of this facilitator tool.
What is Naming the Elephant?
This is one way you can become more self-aware.
What is supervision, therapy or journaling?
Another word for the working relationship.
What is therapeutic alliance?
The general sense of getting along well with the worker
What is rapport?
Avoiding stereotypes is an example of this.
Culturally competent or sensitive practice