Week 4: Quiz

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Week 4 Quiz
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Quiz

• Which of the following is primarily focused on
  deeper problems and issues
• Interviewing
• Counseling
• Psychotherapy
• All of the above
• Non-Attention
• Is always inappropriate
• Can help a client stop repeating a story over and
  over
• Facilitates clients talking even more about their
  issues

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Quiz

• Which is most likely to bring out the facts of a
  situation
• what
• how
• why
• Nonverbal indications of a client who is deeply
  emotional may most often include
• Rapid breathing, speech hesitations, and facial
  flushing
• Relaxed body posture concealing deeper feelings
• Focusing on a single topic to the exclusion of
  all others
• all of the above

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Week 4 Practice
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• 1. Its so much worse when I try to go out. I
  get tense and cant do it, and then I get very
  depressed about it.
• a. (in a rapid, abrupt voice) Tell me how it all
  started.
• b. (in a warm, expressive voice) Tell me how it
  all started.
• c. (in a bored voice) Tell me how it all
  started.

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• 2. I fainted in the bank about 4 years ago, and
  when I came to, a lot of people were standing
  over me.
• a. But that was 4 years ago, it shouldnt bother
  you now.
• b. You should try to go back to the bank every
  day until your confidence is reestablished.
• c. You must have felt quite embarrassed when
  that happened.

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• 3. It soon became unbearable for me to go into
  stores or to get my hair cut to do all the
  things I should do.
• a. Who cut your hair?
• b. How do you buy new clothes?
• c. All the usual things became unbearable.

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• 4. When I go out, my stomach gets upset. I get a
  headache, my throat is tight, and I cant
  breathe.
• a. How do you think this relates to what
  happened in the bank?
• b. Well, I fainted in public once, too, and I
  never have those problems.
• c. Well, I dont see any reason for you to feel
  that way. I dont think other people feel that
  way.

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• 5. I stopped going out. Then I found that I
  couldnt go out socially or visit with friends
  anymore.
• a. Did your husband complain?
• b. It must have been difficult for everyone in
  your family to make excuses for you all the time.
• c. And then....

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• 6. For a while, I couldnt go out socially
  unless Id had a few drinks.
• a. Could you tell me more about that?
• b. What did you drink?
• c. Are you an alcoholic?

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• 7. (looking down at the floor) Well, Istarted
  havingjust a few drinks.
• a. Im here to listen, I cant help you if you
  wont tell me everything.
• b. Maybe we should talk about something else.
• c. You find it difficult to tell me about it.

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True or False

• It is most important to offer solutions to a
  clients problem as soon as possible in the
  interview?
• A competent interviewer is comfortable with brief
  reflective silences?
• A relaxed, professional, and respectful posture
  communicates an interviewers concern for a
  client?

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True or False

• A competent interviewer is more attentive to
  verbal cues than to nonverbal cues?
• When an interviewer feels temporarily lost during
  an interview, it is usually a good idea to focus
  the discussion on something the client has
  related in the immediate or near past?

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Role-Plays
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Organization

• Divide into groups of three
• Three-roles Counselor, Client, Observer
• Remember Attending Behavior, Questions,
  Encouraging, Paraphrasing, Summarizing,
  Reflecting Feeling
• (Observation Skills)

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Topics Tell me about

• A job you have liked and a job you didnt (or
  dont) enjoy
• Concerns with work
• Concerns with school
• Conflict with a friend or family member

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Feedback

• What were some of the counselor strengths?
• What would you have said or done differently?
• What are 1-2 things the counselor can keep
  working on?
• Remember Be concrete and specific