FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Prefrontal Cortex, Experiential Avoidance, Therapeutic Relationship
7 Oct 2017
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Identify the key emotions of a client and feed them back to clarify affective experience. With some clients, the brief acknowledgement of feeing may be more appropriate. Clients will experience and understand their emotional state more fully and talk in more depth about emotions and feelings. They may correct the counselor"s reflection with a more accurate descriptor. Paraphrase: thomas, your father has been drinking a long time and your mom takes a lot. But now he"s started to be violent and you"ve been tempted to hit him yourself. Reflection of feelings: thomas, you feel real hurt, anger, and worry because of what happened. The most basic reflections of feeling would be it really hurt, you felt angry, and you are worried. Paraphrasing client statements focuses on the content and clarifies what has been communicated. The first task in eliciting and reflecting feelings is to recognize the key emotional words by the client.
