Reflecting Feelings class 3 PDF

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Reflecting Feelings A Foundation of Client Experience

Chapter 7 Reflection: Difference Between a Paraphrase and a Reflection of Feeling  Paraphrasing is to understand and get the details straight  Reflection of feeling to elaborate emotion Comparing Paraphrasing and Reflection of Feeling  Reflection of feeling focuses on emotion and making them more explicit and clear- draw out discrepancies  Paraphrasing focuses on content to clarify what has been said Reflection of Feeling  Feelings are layered  Clients talk about emotional tones: “I’m confused and frustrated”  Pick up on discrepancies of mixed emotions The Techniques of Reflecting Feeling 1. Choose a sentence stem 2. Pinpoint and label feeling(s) 3. Use brief statement of context 4. Use appropriate tense 5. Check for accuracy List of Feeling Words  Expand our client’s vocabulary of feeling words  If we leave the feeling at the top level (mad, sad, glad, fear), they will not have any insight

 It gives way for more solutions to the problem  Beneficial to work with a list of alternative words Reflection of Feeling 1. Observe the feeling 2. Name the feeling 3. Repeat to the client Positive Feeling  There must be a balance of positive and negative  Problem talk with strength talk  When you only focus on the problems, the client can’t focus on his means  Don’t focus too much on the positive, that the negative does not show Noting Emotional Intensity: A Developmental Skills  A person’s willingness is going to vary  The content is going to vary  The models of problem base is going to vary Chapter 8 The Basic Listening Sequence as a Foundation for Effective Communication in Many Areas of Life  Summary is something you move into when you’re 10-15 minutes away from the end of the session Positive Asset Search  Take a wellness approach  Find strengths and resources near the end of the session  Cognitive calming by talking about what the client is doing well

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The Five Stages/Dimensions of the Well-Formed Interview  Restory: when the reflecting feeling and reflecting meaning comes in, insight  Action: what stood out the most, formulation of homework to help reach goals, behavior o Homework must be tied to working piece, and must be tied to the person as well Five-Stage Interview Circle of Interviewing  May move circularly throughout the stages, as well as different movement and flow  Apply with any theory Five-Stage/Dimension Structure  Many of these questions in these stages have to do with listening between the lines  Information is important to client and counselor to learn

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