The textbook, Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society (2014) explores core counselling skills and techniques. The authors, Ivey, Ivey, & Zalaquett (2014) assert that counselors help clients to help themselves by using competent and effective counselling skills. When counselors accurately use their basic counseling skills, they aid clients in developing their own abilities to use their human potential in the present and in future. Numerous counseling skills are discussed in the textbook, such as intentional and diagnostic interviewing skills, attending skills, observing and reflecting skills, listening skills, confronting skills, and influencing skills. These skills and techniques are
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Counselors who wish to use this theory in practice must use a sound theoretical base as guide. They must closely examine other theories and practices in order to ethically and accurately integrate them into practice (Chongruksa, Parinyapol, Sawatsri, & Pansomboon, 2012). Typically, this requires that a counselor master at least two theories before attempting to implement combinational approaches. The theoretical method used is not as important as the skill with which it is used (Livesley, 2008). Techniques generally used in eclectic counseling are reassurance, providing information, obtaining case history, and testing. Counseling skills are used throughout the therapeutic process, and some skills are used more frequently than others depending on the chosen method or theory. …show more content…
The therapeutic interventions chosen were supposed to be based on evidence of what works. Although, empirical evidence for effectively treating personality disorder is limited, and so interventions were chosen based on a rational analysis of the most effective way to treat a given problem. The eclectic interventions were integrated, delivered, and coordinated through an emphasis on generic methods and on a “phases of change” model targeting symptoms and problems systematically (Livesley, 2008). The results of this extensive case study suggest that no one intervention is more effective than any other in treating personality disorders, but that the integrated modalities together were
Counselors who wish to use this theory in practice must use a sound theoretical base as guide. They must closely examine other theories and practices in order to ethically and accurately integrate them into practice (Chongruksa, Parinyapol, Sawatsri, & Pansomboon, 2012). Typically, this requires that a counselor master at least two theories before attempting to implement combinational approaches. The theoretical method used is not as important as the skill with which it is used (Livesley, 2008). Techniques generally used in eclectic counseling are reassurance, providing information, obtaining case history, and testing. Counseling skills are used throughout the therapeutic process, and some skills are used more frequently than others depending on the chosen method or theory. …show more content…
The therapeutic interventions chosen were supposed to be based on evidence of what works. Although, empirical evidence for effectively treating personality disorder is limited, and so interventions were chosen based on a rational analysis of the most effective way to treat a given problem. The eclectic interventions were integrated, delivered, and coordinated through an emphasis on generic methods and on a “phases of change” model targeting symptoms and problems systematically (Livesley, 2008). The results of this extensive case study suggest that no one intervention is more effective than any other in treating personality disorders, but that the integrated modalities together were