FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Motivational Interviewing, Relate, Therapeutic Relationship

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3400
• Professor: Anna Deinhart

Document Summary

Bls helps you and other professionals to understand the client story. Questioning open questions followed by closed questions to bring out the story and for diagnosis. Encouraging used throughout the session to help evoke details. Paraphrasing catches the essence of what the client is saying. Reflecting feelings examines the complexity of emotions. Summarizing brings order and makes sense of client conversation. Draw out the client"s story and strengths by questioning, encouraging, paraphrasing, reflecting feelings and summarizing. This sequence is used in multiple settings, not just in counseling and psychotherapy. Stage 1: empathic relationship: rapport and structuring ( hello, what would you like the talk about today? ): build a working alliance and enable the client to feel comfortable with the counseling process. Explain what is likely to happen in the session or series of session, including informed consent and ethical issues: commonly used skills are: attending, observation skills, information giving to help structure the session.