Things Clinicians should know
These are working agreements between the client and clinician
Working Agreements
During this time, the clinician may need to meet with the client more frequently and for varying durations.
Crisis
"Tell me what brought you here" is an example of this type of opening
Nondirective opening line
Treatment Plan
Within this type of therapy, both positive and negative transference are expected features of the helping relationship.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Requires that clinicians provide a notice of privacy practices about the use and disclosure of protected health information and that clients sign it
HIPPA
Re-experiencing a past crisis through a different current crisis
Delayed grief reaction
The clinician matches the client’s posture facial expression and movements
Mirroring
This comes next in clinical work after collaborative assessment and conceptualization
establishing a treatment plan
When the clinician unconsciously puts emotions onto the client.
Countertransference
This is the most reliable and effective technique for gathering information, deepening discussion and broadening focus
Asking questions
When working with clients who are currently experiencing this, clinicians should use empirically supported assessment tools to assess for risk factors, warning signs and protective factors.
active suicidal clients
Theses types of questions give the client flexibility in responding
Open-ended questions
In this stage of change, the client establishes goals for change and outlines small-step
Preparation
The clinician may use this type of disclosure when they need to model behaviors, help the client get information about something, or address what's happening in the relationship
A type of consultation for clinicians to navigate situations
Supervision
Response to hearing about or witnessing others' traumatic experiences
Secondary traumatic stress
A brief response by the clinician that encourages the client to continue with the story or to add to what has been said is called
Prompting
Before meeting with his next client, Dimitri tries to clear his mind of his last client and stop thinking about the work he has to do at home that night. This is called
Psychological attending
This term refers to the belief that all thoughts are accompanied by emotions and all emotions have thought content.
Feeling-Thinking
These types of visits are helpful because they give the clinician an expanded perspective on the client.
Home Visits
Immediate post-crisis ventilation, meaning making, support, and suggestions for coping
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)
When a client asks a clinician a personal question, the clinician should:
Think about the effects of both answering and not answering the question
When the clinician suggests that they practice stressful situations and how to react during one of the sessions and the clinician take on the role of someone else. This is an example of:
This can occur when the clinician reflects the wrong content, feeling, or meaning and/or the clinician and client come from different ethnic or sociocultural backgrounds and can lead to the clinical relationship being destroyed
Empathic Failures