A therapist"s planned use of his personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments.
What is Therapeutic use of Self?
100
Interpersonal behaviors that are generally inconsistent with how a client typically and consistently behaves when interacting with others. They reflect a client's acute emotional reaction to a specific situation.
What are situational characteristics?
100
Ensuring the client's right are enforce and resources are secured. Therapist is mediator, facilitator, negotiator, enforcer with external agency's.
What is the advocating mode?
100
Carefully structuring therapy activities and being explicit about the plan, sequence, and events of therapy.
What is instructing?
100
A type of communication the places more emphasis on the literal spoken word and less emphasis on tone, inflection, or context.
What is Low context communication?
200
An orientation to practice that emphasizes collaboration and considers clients as active agents in the therapy process.
What is A client-centered approach?
200
a naturally occurring communication, reaction, process, task, or general circumstance that occurs during therapy and has the potential to strengthen or weaken the relationship.
What is an Interpersonal Event?
200
Expecting the client to be an equal participant in therapy. Ensuring choice, freedom, and autonomy.
What is collaborating?
200
Facilitating practical thinking and solving dilemmas by giving choices, posing questions, and opportunity for comparative thinking.
What is the problem-solving mode?
300
Thinking in story form in order to discover the meaning of the disability experience from the client's perspective. Helping a client see a new future in light of their impairment.
What is Narrative Reasoning?
300
Interpersonal behavior that is idiosyncratic to the client. It is stable and consistent. Involving their preferred style of communication, capacity for trust, need for control etc.
What are enduring characteristics?
300
Ongoing striving to understand the client's thoughts, feelings and behaviors while suspending any judgement.
What is empathizing?
300
A continuum of skills that are applied by the therapist to build a functional working relationship with the client.
What is an interpersonal skill base?
300
when a therapist fails to notice or understand a communication from a client or a behavior is perceived by the client to be hurtful or insensitive.
What is an empathic break?
400
Four central elements: The client, Interpersonal events, the therapist, the occupation.
What is the Intentional relationship Model?
400
Six therapeutic modes that are specific ways of relating to clients.
What are advocating, collaborating, empathizing, encouraging, instructing, and problem-solving?
400
Instilling hope. Using positive reinforcement, conveying confidence.
What is encouraging?
400
Client specific emotions, behaviors, and reactions that are displayed during interactions with the therapist. They are a result of the client's situation as well as underlying personality traits.
What are interpersonal characteristics?
400
a difficult interpersonal behavior that is most frequently encountered by therapists.
What are attempts to manipulate the therapist?
500
the process by which a therapist monitors both the therapeutic relationship and interpersonal events of therapy in order to decide on interpersonal strategies.
What is Interpersonal Reasoning?
500
When a therapist is able to use the modes flexibly and match them to the client and situation as needed.
What is a multi-modal style?
500
An activity or circumstance that can lead a client to become overwhelmed or experience uncomfortable emotional reactions like embarrassment, humiliation, or shame.
What is an emotionally charged therapy situation?
500
the first step in conflict resolution?
What is exercise restraint and invite the client to join you to resolve the issue?
500
the aspect of communication considered to be fundamental to the preservation of the therapeutic relationship.