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Worksheets2- Basic Counseling Skills
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Core Conditions of Counseling:
*The counselor accepts the client unconditionally and non-judgmentally.
*The client is free to explore all thoughts and feelings, positive or negative, without danger of rejection or condemnation.
*Crucially, the client is free to explore and to express without having to do anything in particular or meet any particular standards of behavior to 'earn' positive regard from the counselor.
Unconditional positive regard
Empathic understanding
Congruence
Core Conditions of Counseling:
**It means that the counselor accurately understands the client's thoughts, feelings and meanings from the client's own perspective.
**When the counselor perceives what the world is like from the client's point of view, it demonstrates not only that his/her view has value, but also that the client is being accepted.
Unconditional positive regard
Empathic understanding
Congruence
Core Conditions of Counseling:
A requirement for being an effective counselor is being able to practice and impart the skill of empathy in the client-counselor interaction. Being empathetic ensures that you are listening and dealing with the client's concerns as they present them. You are not judging them.
Unconditional positive regard
Empathic understanding
Congruence
Core Conditions of Counseling:
**The counselor is authentic and genuine. The counselor does not present an aloof professional facade, but is present and transparent to the client. There is no air of authority or hidden knowledge, and the client does not have to speculate about what the counselor is 'really like'.
**Counselor’s awareness and acceptance of his or her own feelings and behavior.
Unconditional positive regard
Empathic understanding
Congruence
1- Focusing:
2- Encouragers, Paraphrasing and Summarizing:
3 - Questioning:
4 - Confrontation:
5 – Reflection of Feelings:
6 – Summary of Feelings:
7 – Clarification:
Verbal Counseling Skills
Non-Verbal Counseling Skills
BODY LANGUAGE:
OBSERVATION SKILLS:
1- Facial Expressions:
2 - Posture and Gestures:
3 - Behavioral Discrepancies:
Verbal Counseling Skills
Non-Verbal Counseling Skills
A counselor should often ask their client to clarify what they are telling them to make sure they understand the situation correctly.
Spheres of Influence
Clarification
Client Expectations
Confrontation
This does not mean the client confronting the therapist or vice versa. The client should be able to self-examine themselves during counseling.
Spheres of Influence
Clarification
Client Expectations
Confrontation
Judging and evaluating the client’s message; distractions around the room; temptation to ask about missing information and; putting pressure on yourself to fix the problem.
These are all examples of what?
Transference
Barriers to listening
Microaggressions
Barriers to speaking
According to Cormier, why is self-disclosure helpful in a counselling session?
Shows you need therapy
Helps with client feedback
Helps your self-care
Shows you are genuine, human
Helping listening behavior includes
On-off listening
Allowing silence
Judging
Too many questions
"How do you feel with your vision now?". What type of question is that?
Open ended.
Closed ended.
Partially closed.
Open then closed.
You used this type of question to get a specific information.
Open.
Closed.
Open open then closed.
Closed forever.
What type of Counseling is this:
It seeks to point out to the client his/her actions.
Confrontational
Depth
Spiritual
What type of Counseling is this:
It focuses on teaching the client.
Preventive
Depth
Educative
What goal of Counseling is this:
It helps in developing good social interaction skills, learning emotional control, developing a positive self-concept, and so on.
Developmental
Psychological
Physiological
What goal of Counseling is this:
It involves acquiring the basic foundations of learning and cognitive skills.
Cognitive
Remedial
Physiological
What goal of Counseling is this:
It involves acquiring the basic understandings and habits for good health.
Developmental
Psychological
Physiological
1. A specialized service whose primary concern is with the individual and to help them to solve their problems.
Teaching
Guidance
Learning
none of the above
Psychoanalysis approach of counselling was originated by
Joseph Wolpe
Carl Rogers
Sigmund Freud
None of the above
