Summary
Contents
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This is the first book on counseling skills to look in detail at the practical interventions and tools used to establish the therapeutic relationship. Step-by-step, the text teaches the reader exactly how to use these skills with clients to address their concerns and achieve therapeutic change.
Integrative and pluralistic in approach, the text covers the key techniques from all the major therapeutic models, placing them in their historical and theoretical contexts. Techniques covered include empathic responding, experiential focusing, Gestalt, metaphors, task-directed imagery, ego state therapy, solution focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy and self-in-relationship therapy.
Key Features
- Presents each technique from the perspective of its underlying theory
- Gives practical instruction on how to deliver each intervention
- Provides extracts from counseling sessions to demonstrate the technique in action
This book is crucial reading for all trainees on counseling and psychotherapy courses or preparing to use counseling techniques in a range of other professional settings. It is also helpful for professionals who wish to acquire additional skills.
Empathic Responses
Empathic Responses
Chapter Summary
A fundamental prerequisite for effective psychotherapy is for the therapist to empathically understand not only the client's problem but also their subjective experience that is the basis for change and gives it direction. This chapter presents the notion of empathy, differentiates various levels of empathic responding, extends the notion of empathy to include desires/yearnings and commitment to change, and outlines procedures to develop the skill to respond empathically to client statements. A transcript of an actual session demonstrates the use of primary and advanced levels of empathic responding and illustrates how paying attention to client need statements and to commitment to change enhanced the therapy session. Empathic responding is most effective with resourceful clients, but with less resourceful clients it is ...
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