Chpt 5: Encouraging, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
A client who word vomits to you at length in a manner that is hard to follow...
...does not have cognitive control of her thoughts and feelings and needs help in organizing and making sense of her world.
Without organization of our own stories and client stories, we will continue to live in....
...indecision, confusion, and even chaos.
cognitions are...
...language-based thought processes underlying all thinking activities, such as analyzing, remembering, imaging, judging, and problem solving
Children generally respond best if...
...you seek to understand the world as they do.
What is active listening?
a communication process that require intentional participation, decision making, and responding
restatement
a type of extended encourager in which the counselor repeats short statements of two or more words exactly as used by the client
Encouraging, paraphrasing and summarizing are ___ listening skills that are the cognitive center of the basic listening sequence.
active
Listening skills used with adults are also useful with ___.
children
summarizing
encompasses a longer period of conversation than paraphrasing, sometimes an entire or several interviews
paraphrasing
slightly more complex than encouraging - paraphrasing covers more of what the client has just said, usually several sentences, distilling the essence of what the client has said; helps clarify a confusing story
T or F: Accurate paraphrasing will help the client stop repeating a story unnecessarily.
true
T or F: Our counseling skills affect the brain and the mind.
true - we can improve cognitive functioning, potentially facilitating the development of new neural networks int he process of generating new stories
encouragers
verbal and nonverbal expressions the counselor can use to prompt clients to continue talking
