Community Counseling

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def. of strucure in counsling

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joint understanding b/n the counselor and client regarding the characteristics, conditions, procedures, and parameters of counseling.

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Scapegoating

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blaming a person when the problem was not entirely his/her fault

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Counselor-client contract

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helps to develop strucutre in the relationship - often includes things such as defining teh counselors philosophyof human nature as well as the purposes, expectations, responsibilities, methods and ethics of counseling

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Otani - 4 broad categories of resistance

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amount of verbalization, content of message, style of communication, attitudes towards counselors and sessions

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Ways for counselors to help clients overcome resistance

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1. anticipate the anger/frustration/and defensiveness. 2. to show acceptance, patience and understanding, 3. counselors to use persuasion, 4. through confrontation. 5. use of pragmatic techniques such as silence, reflection or empathy, questioning, desctibing, assessing, pretending and sharing the counselors perspectve.

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Things to consider with setting

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Accessories, Color, Lighting, smell, sound, mtexture, thermal conditions, distance between counselor and client

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counselor qualities

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cousnelors should possess self awareness, honesty, congruence, ability to communicate, and knowledge. Also need expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness,

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2 tyeps of first interviews

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Client intitiated vs. counselor innitiated

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Information oriented first interview

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a. it can be an intake interview to collect needed information about the client or b. it can signal the beginning of a relationship

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Probe

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a question that usually begins with who, what, where, why .

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Forms of statments/quesitons in 1st interview

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probe, accent (highlighting last few words of clients statement), closed Q., open Q., request for clarification

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Relationship Oriented 1st interview

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focus on feelings or relationship dynamics. Concentrate on clients attitudes and emotions.

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common counselor responses in relationship oriented 1st interview

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restatement (i.e. paraphrasing), reflection of feelings, summary of feelings, acknowledgment of nonverbal behavior,

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Model for info-orieinted 1st interview

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1 idnetifying data, 2. presenting problems, both primary and secondary, 3. clients current life setting, 4. family history, 5. personal history, 6. description of the client during the interview, summary and recommendations

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Rapport

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setting aside everytything and focus completely on client - a general interest in and acceptance of client.

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empathy

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counselors ability to enter the clients phenomenal world to experience it

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What is empathy fostered by

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attentiveness - verbal and non-verbal

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Non-verbal skills

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SOLER
Squarely, Open posture, Lean toward, Eye contact, Relax

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Verbal behaviios that are non-helpful

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advice giving, lecturing, questioning and story telling.

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7 criteria for effective goals

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They should be: 1. mutually agreed on, 2. specific, 3. relevant to self-defeating behavior, 4. achievmant and success oriented, 5. quantifiable and measurable, 6. behavioral and observable, 7. understandable and can be restated clearly