SLWK 606 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Socratic Questioning, Therapeutic Relationship
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Several essential streams that run through each therapy session: Facilitating cognitive and behavioral change between sessions (homework). It is essential to start building trust and rapport with patients from your first contact with them. Demonstrate good counseling skills and accurate understanding. Empathic statements, choice of words, tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. Feel likeable, when you are warm, friendly, and interested. Feel less alone, when you describe the process of working together as a team to solve their problems and work toward their goals. Feel more optimistic, as you present yourself as realistically hopeful that treatment will help. Feel a greater sense of self-efficacy, when you help them see how much credit they deserve for solving problems, doing homework, and engaging in other productive activities. Help them prioritize their problems they want help in solving. Provide rationales for interventions and elicit their approval.
