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PSY 612 Week 2

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What are the common stages of development of the helping relationship?
1. Relationship development: meeting the client, building rapport, gathering information, determining the clt's goals, talking about limits of confidentiality, consent for services, HIPPA etc.

2. Extended exploration: therapist uses their theoretical approach and different techniques to explore the clt's cognitive and emotional dynamic, problem parameters, also reevaluation of goals established in the first stage

3. Problem Resolution: Here the therapist facilitates, demonstrates, instructs, and provides a safe environment for the development of change. At the same time the client is looking at their own cognitive and emotional dynamics (increased insight) and trying out new behaviors and getting rid of old behaviors that don't help them meet their goals

4. Termination and Follow Up: This is the closing stage of the Helping Relationship and ideally, it's decided on together (counselor and clt)
What are the Core dimensions of the helping relationship?
Core dimensions are a set of conditions that, when present, enhance the effectiveness of the helping relationship.

(Empathic understanding, Respect and positive regard, Genuineness and Congruence, Concreteness, Warmth, Immediacy..)
What are Strategies?
skills that therapists gain through education or experience that are used within the therapeutic relationship to help clients move from problem identification to problem resolution.
What are Active listening strategies?
Attending & Encouraging

Restating and Paraphrasing

Reflecting Content and Reflecting Feeling

Clarifying and Perception Checking

Summarizing
What are the strategies that aid the therapist in gathering data/help the therapist gain deeper information from their clients
Questioning

Probing and Leading
What are the strategies that add depth and enhance the relationship, strengthen it, and create deeper levels of communication.
Self-disclosure

Confrontation

Responding to non-verbal cues
Three brief approaches:
Problem-Focused Brief Therapy

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Solution-Oriented and Possibility Therapy
Problem-Focused Brief Therapy
clt wants change, but the problem formation and problem maintenance form a vicious circle and leave the clt stuck.

goals are to interrupt this cycle and create resolution: figuring out where the clt is stuck, figuring out what they're going to do to get unstuck and stopping them from doing what they see as logical or necessary.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Shifts from focusing on the problem to focusing on the solution and on clt's strengths

The assumption is that solutions are constructed rather than the assumption that problems are solved; We don't really focus on the details of the problem. We more so focus on how the clt will know when the problem is solved.

Goal: Solutions come about when clt does something different. A goal is having the clt imagine their lives without the particular problem, which helps instill hope for change
Solution-Oriented and Possibility Therapy
Assumption is that clt is stuck not only by how they are "doing" the problem but also how they are viewing the problem.

Goal of therapy is to help clt move toward hope-filled alternative stories (narratives) rather than problem-saturated stories. Focuses on bringing about small but positive outcomes for clts. Focuses on possibilities rather than problems and involves using what is going right rather than focusing on what is going wrong
What are the four types of integrative counseling?
technical

theoretical

assimilative

common factors
Technical integration
selecting the best treatment option for the individual and the diagnosis, and as far as possible, evidence based. Uses techniques connected with various theories rather than just one theory as a frame of reference
Theoretical integration
blending the components of two or more theories and assuming that the outcomes of counseling or psychotherapy will be better than they result of using either theory by itself (i.e., DBT)
Assimilative integration
based on single orientation but incorporates on a very selective basis, techniques from other therapeutic paradigms.

Advantage: counselor bases the case conceptualization and accompanying tx plan on a single theory -for example transpersonal therapist draws from both eastern and western traditions in selecting interventions that best meet the clt's needs
Common factors integration
emphasizes common practices connected with a variety of theories of counseling and psychotherapy. The counselors draw on many of the core dimensions discussed earlier
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