Skilled Helper Flashcards

Flexibility

Clients engage in each stage and step of the model in their unique way, often moving back and forth between stages/tasks.

Stages of Change

Clients progress through stages like Unawareness, Search for remedies, Serious action, and Relapse in their readiness for change.

Problem-Management Framework

Involves Mining, Organizing, Evaluating, and Incorporating different solutions.

Feedback

Necessary systems throughout a session or treatment program, not just at the end.

Shadow Side of Helping Models

Highlights issues like rigid application of treatment methods, irrational forgetfulness, and failure to share models with clients.

Helping Relationship

Emphasizes collaboration, goal development, and flexibility for successful relationships.

Alliance Behavior

Focuses on continuous investment, seeking feedback, and helping clients identify strengths.

Helpers and Clients as Entrepreneurs

Encourages risk-taking, vision, action, and growth mindset for impactful outcomes.

Key Values of the Working Alliance

Includes respect, empathy, proactive appreciation of diversity, and influence towards self-responsibility.

Develop a Bias Toward Action

Encourages self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and influencing self-responsibility.

Case Conceptualization

Involves understanding client issues, guiding counseling processes, and preparing for successful termination.

Communication Skills in Helping

Covers turn-taking, active listening, mutual influencing, and co-creating outcomes.

Empathic Presence/Listening

Focuses on tuning in, expressing empathy, and nonverbal behavior in communication.

SOLER

S - face squarely
O - open posture
L - lean forward
E - eye contact
R - relax bitch

Types of Listening

Differentiates non-listening, partial listening, audio-recorder listening, and rehearsing.

Client’s Nonverbal Messages

Understanding modifiers like confirming, denying, adding intensity, and controlling in communication.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

Challenges client's thinking distortions for effective therapy.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DPT)

Focuses on acceptance, change, behavioral, cognitive aspects, and skillsets for therapy.

Rational Emotive Therapy (REBT)

Emphasizes emotions as a result of personal beliefs about events.

Self-Instructional Training

Involves guiding behavior through self-talk and refraining from immediate self-judgments.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Effective for various psychiatric disorders like depression, anxiety, and phobias; challenges long-held beliefs; requires client willingness to change

Positive Regard

Therapist believes in client's capacity for change, offers reassurance, and sets goals for behavioral change

Three Dimensions of Responding Skills

Perceptiveness, Know-How, and Assertiveness are crucial for accurate and comfortable responses in therapy

Empathic Understanding

Formula "You feel... because..." helps in understanding and addressing clients' emotions and behaviors

Multicultural Counseling and Theory (MCT)

Adapting methods to cultural contexts, recognizing individual differences, and addressing social oppression

Nudging

Using verbal and nonverbal tactics to prompt clients to explore their concerns; includes prompts, probes, and summaries

Behavioral Approaches

Focus on behaviors over thoughts, reinforcement, shaping, and measurement; includes Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and identifying irrational thoughts