Taylor Ch. 4

The primary mode or set of modes that you tend to utilize most often during interactions with clients..

Therapeutic style

Providing clients with knowledge about and access to resources, awareness of laws or rights, consciousness-raising, normalization of experience, tends toward roles of facilitator or consultant

Advocating

Relinquishing all therapeutic power and control, facilitating the client's independence in thought and behavior, expecting clients to drive your therapeutic reasoning by following their preferences and participation choices

Collaborating

Summary statements, mirroring affect, validating negativity, deepening questions that reflect an effort to understand, etc.

Empathizing

Instilling hope, courage, and the will to participate, explore, or perform; praising accomplishments; using positive reinforcement to encourage continued behavior

Encouraging

Directing, informing, guiding, educating, explaining, justifying, providing structure, correcting, etc.

Instructing

Facilitating the client's ability to reason through obstacles, asking Socratic or agenda-driven questions to uncover faulty assumptions or analyze decisions, comparing options for action

Problem-solving

3 circumstances that characterize suboptimal mode use

Mode mismatch, mixed mode use, and incongruent mode use

Mode is not appropriate for the client's interpersonal characteristics or event

Mode mismatch

Two modes are used in the same moment of communication, causing confusion about the therapists true meaning

Mixed mode use

Therapist's facial expression or body language is inconsistent with the mode or interpersonal context

Incongruent mode use

6 suggestions for mode shifts

Announce, time, body language, message, justification, responsibility