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What Do You Mean?
Status and Clarification
A Plethora of Concepts
100
Subjective distress, mandated for treatment, or personal growth and development
What are the 3 types of client motivation?
100
A positive and respectful professional relationship between interviewer and client is established. The interviewer and client work collaboratively to establish and achieve mutually agreeable client goals. In the context of the professional relationship, interviewer and client interact, both verbally and nonverbally and the quality of those interactions is influenced in part by culture.
What is Clinical Interviewing?
100
In interviewing the client, you pay attention to what the client is wearing, their age, race/ethnicity, gender, etc. Are they disheveled or unkempt.
What is appearance in the Mental Status Exam?
100
This is a verbal tracking skill and an essential part of effective communication. Its purpose is to let the client know you have accurately heard the central meaning of their messages.
What is a paraphrase of reflection of content?
200
Self-awareness, physical setting, note taking, informed consent, documentation, time, etc.
What are some of the important aspects of the therapeutic process?
200
This is a contract to provide services characterized by payment or compensation for services provided and the services must be worth their cost.
What is the Nature of the Professional Relationship?
200
The client knows who they are, where they are, what time it is, and why they are in the present situation. They might be alert or confused.
What is Orientation and Consciousness in the Mental Status Exam?
200
The purpose of this to make clear for yourself and the client the precise nature of what has been said.
What is clarification?
300
Silence, Clarification, Paraphrase, Nondirective Reflection of Feeling, and Summarization
What are nondirective listening responses?
300
The foundation of interviewing; culturally appropriate eye contact, body language, vocal qualities, and verbal tracking.
What is attending behavior?
300
You ask the client a few questions like who is our current president. You give them 3 words and ask them to repeat the words. You give them a series of numbers and ask them to repeat the numbers forward and backward. You must consider culture.
What is Memory and Intelligence in the Mental Status Exam?
300
The purpose of this is to let clients know, through an emotionally oriented paraphrase that you are tuned in to their emotional state. You reflect or restate only the emotional content that you clearly hear the client say. Do not probe, interpret, or speculate.
What is nondirective reflection of feeling?
400
Introducing the Wish, What’s Good or Bad About you, Use of Projective Measures, Fantasy and Games, etc.
What are ways of assessing presenting problems and developing goals?
400
You have fantasies of adopting or rescuing the child. You break traditional boundaries and do things outside of the professional relationship.
What is overinvolvement with a child?
400
This is a false sensory impression or experience.
What is an hallucination?
400
The purpose is to produce insight or a more accurate perception of reality. Psychoanalytically speaking, interviewers are assisting clients in moving toward greater self-awareness and a higher level of functioning. This is called reframing by other orientations such as family systems or cognitive behavioral.
What is interpretation?
500
Putting the client at ease and establishing rapport, eliciting information, defining the problem, and identifying strengths, maintaining control, determining outcomes and setting goals, etc.
What are some of the steps of the interviewing process?
500
This demonstrates accurate listening, enhances client and interviewer recall of major themes, helps clients focus on important issues and extracts or refines the meaning behind client messages.
What is summarization?
500
In interviewing a client, you pay attention to physical movement, facial expressions, looking around the room, and excessive body movements.
What is Behavior or Psychomotor Activity in the Mental Status Exam?
500
In saying to a client, “Wow, you feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders.” You are using a particular technique.
What is a metaphorical paraphrase?