Helping Skills and Facilitative Conditions

Podcast

Play an AI-generated podcast conversation about this lesson

Questions and Answers

What is the core concept of Solution Focused Brief Therapy?

Focus on client's problems

Reframing of negative behavior to positive

Assigning homework to clients

Utilization of client's strengths to generate change (correct)

What is the primary goal of a therapist in Collaborative Therapy?

To understand the client's perspective and facilitate dialogue (correct)

To provide solutions to the client's problems

To set goals for the client

To educate the client about their problems

What is the purpose of 'Re-authoring' in Narrative Therapy?

To tell the client's story from the therapist's perspective

To help clients understand their problems

To empower clients to tell their own story (correct)

To focus on the client's strengths

What is the primary focus of Solution Focused Brief Therapy?

Focusing on client's needs and personality Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of the therapist in Brief Therapy?

To recover the client's resources and skills Signup and view all the answers

What is the main idea of Narrative Therapy?

To understand people's stories and their problems Signup and view all the answers

According to the Hill's Three-stage model, which stage is based on psychoanalytic therapy?

Insight Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of the exploration stage in the helping process?

Establishing a therapeutic relationship Signup and view all the answers

In the action stage of the helping process, which approach focuses on behaviors rather than unconscious motivations?

Behavioral therapy Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of descriptive conceptualization in therapy?

Gathering detailed information about the client's situation Signup and view all the answers

Which systemic therapy model focuses on the organization of the family and its potential causes of distress?

Structural therapy Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of the Milan systemic therapy model?

Changing the family's organization and rules Signup and view all the answers

In the strategic therapy model, what is the primary role of the therapist?

Expert and directive Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of the problem-focused approach in brief therapy?

Creating small changes to solve the problem Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of goal-setting in therapy?

Setting specific, measurable, and achievable goals Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary principle of collaborative empiricism in therapy?

Examining the client's experiences collaboratively Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of psychoanalytic therapy?

To make the patient's unconscious conscious Signup and view all the answers

According to Prochaska's stages of change, what is the first stage of the therapeutic process?

Precontemplation Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of humanistic therapy?

Self-realization and individuality Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of brief therapy models?

To solve the patient's problem quickly Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of narrative therapy?

The patient's discourses and narratives Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of systemic therapy models?

To understand the patient's position within different systems Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of CBT?

To change the patient's internal dialogue Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of DBT?

To change the patient's dialectical thinking Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of solution-focused therapy?

To solve the patient's problem quickly Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of Milanese therapy?

To resolve misunderstandings Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Focus on client's strengths and resources to generate change
Utilize client's attitude and language to foster change
Core concepts:
- Utilization: using client's strengths to generate change
- One-down: help me understand you
- One-up: I'm in control of the process
- Rituals: forcing change through ordeals
- Directives: homework
- Reframing of negative behavior
- Restraining: change must be done slowly
- Positive connotations: change must be desirable
Shazer, Berg, and Weiner's solution-focused brief therapy model

Collaborative Therapy

Egalitarian relationship between therapist and client
Useful for reaching understanding, improving communication, and resolving conflict
Knowledge is created through dialogue and realities
Harlene Anderson's collaborative therapy model

Narrative Therapy

Postmodern approach
Therapist tries to understand people and their stories, along with their problems
Understanding stories: based on their own interpretation of reality
Dominant stories: stories that shape a person's life and society
Multiple stories
Interventions:
- Re-authoring: telling your own story from your perspective and finding purpose
- Externalization: putting problems and behaviors as external
- Deconstruction: reducing problems to their smallest significant parts
- Unique outcomes: accepting the possibility of new storylines
- Existentialist perspective: one can create their own meaning

Clinical Psychology

Provides continuing and comprehensive mental and behavioral care for individuals
Focus on remoralization, remediation, and rehabilitation
The helping process:
- Theoretical foundation: goals of helping
- Hill's Three-stage model: Exploration, Insight, Action
- Facilitative conditions: empathy, compassion, collaboration
- Therapeutic relationship: real, working alliance, transference, and countertransference
- Outcome of helping for clients: remoralization, remediation, rehabilitation

Helping Process

Overview: based on Roger's client-centered theory
Emphasis on client's experiences, feelings, values, and inner life
Perceptions of reality vary
Subjective experience guides behavior
Understand their frame of reference to understand another person
Theory of personality development:
- Organismic valuing process: how infants evaluate their experiences
- Need for unconditional positive regard
- COWs guide a child's organization of their experience
Defenses and reintegrations:
- Threats: differences between who I am and who I think I ought to be
- Overcome disintegration, rigidity, or discrepancies through awareness and accuracy
- Reintegration: reduces COWs, increases positive self-regard

Attending, Listening, and Observing

Overview
Attending: physical orientation towards clients, let them know we are paying attention
Listening: capturing and understanding messages, overt communication, and reflection
Observing: paying attention to overt communication in non-verbal behavior
Cultural issues and nonverbal behaviors:
- Emblems: substitutes for words
- Illustrators: accompany speech
- Regulators: monitor conversation flow
- Adaptors: habitual acts with no purpose

Psychoanalytic and Attachment Theories

Psychoanalytic:
- Consciousness-insight
- Defenses-difficulties
Attachment:
- Reducing anxiety turns into safe exploration
- Early relationships
- Defenses
- Therapeutic relationship
- Insight

Action Stage

Considers Prochaska's model for change
Changes can be thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Acting is crucial for consolidating new thinking patterns
Behavioral and cognitive theories:
- Focus on behaviors rather than unconscious motivations
- What maintains symptoms rather than what causes them
- Behaviors are learned
- Emphasis on the present
- Importance on specific and clearly defined goals

Systemic, Brief, and Postmodern Therapeutic Models

Structural model:
- Minuchin's model
- Families and young people
- Works with general system theory, applied to social behavior
Milan model:
- Palazzoli, Boscolo, Cecchin, and Prata
- Family problems are there to maintain homeostasis and are supported by interactional patterns
Strategic/interactional models:
- Problem-centered and solution-focused
- Interested in creating change in behavior
- Related to Erickson's strategic therapy and the MRI of Palo Alto

Studying That Suits You

Use AI to generate personalized quizzes and flashcards to suit your learning preferences.

Description

This quiz assesses your understanding of the helping process, including the three-stage model, facilitative conditions, and the skills required to be an effective helper. Topics covered include empathy, compassion, and collaboration, as well as the theoretical foundations of helping. Test your knowledge of the helping skills and facilitative conditions!