Module 7

Reflecting of feelings

this identifies the key emotions of a client and feed them back to clarify effective experience which the brief acknowledgement of feeling may be more appropriate often combined with paraphrasing and summarizing

Emotional words used by client

these are the emotion or expression from the client

Implicit emotional words

these are the emotions that are not expressed by the client

Nonverbal expressed emotion

these are emotion that are not expressed but discovered through observation of body movement

Mixed verbal and nonverbal emotional cues

these are the discrepancies between the emotion of the client. The overlapping verbal and nonverbal cues.

Sentence stem

a technique of reflecting feelings where you stem what youve observed from the client for example they stated that theyve been dealing with alot lately and you follow up with “it sounds like youre frustrated”

Feeling label or emotional world

a technique of reflecting feelings where label what is the exact feelings of the client

Tense of reflection

a technique of reflecting feelings where you keep mind the past or future tense of your responses to really present how emphatic your response feels

Check out

a technique of reflecting feelings where you check the accuracy or if your interpretation of what the client said was right

Sensorimotor Emotional Style

a style where client cant really deal with their emotions they might have challenge in reflecting their emotions. The positive in this is that they really know what emotion or they know what things make them felt. On the negative side, they may be overwhelmed by too much emotion

Concrete emotional style

a emotional style where client have a vague sense of emotions underlying their concerns.

Abstract Formal-operational emotional style

a emotional style where client become less concrete and more abstract and reflects on emotions, but they might avoid experiencing the emotion in the sensory level. They are quite effective at seeing the repeating patterns of emotions but have difficulty being concrete and specific.

Abstract Dialect/Systemic emotional style

Clients using this style are very effective at analyzing their emotions and their emotionality will change with the context. The emotions are more analyzed more than experienced by the clients