FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Narrative Therapy, The Counselor

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

Document Summary

Defining the skills of reflection of meaning and interpretation/reframe. Enable clients to think differently about themselves, their feelings and their stories. Both seek implicit issues and meanings below the surface of client conversation. Reflecting meaning is the art of encouraging clients to find new ways of examining their lives through your in-depth listening for deeper issues and visions of the present, past and future. Interpretation/reframing is the art of supplying clients with new perspectives, words and ideas that they can use to create new ways of thinking and feeling and ultimately to behave differently. Both interpretation/reframe and reflection of meaning may help clients find their center of being in the world. Eliciting and reflecting meaning are both skills and strategies. Reflection of meaning: meanings are close to core client experiencing. Encourage clients to explore their own meanings and values in more depth from their own perspective. Questions to elicit meaning are often a vital first step.