Exam 7: Reflecting Feelings: a Foundation of Client Experience

"I see the situation differently each time I look at it.It's so sad and I feel so badly that I lost my friend in the accident and I worry that I didn't do more to help.At the same time, I treasure the memories and feel so glad to have shared the world, even in this short time.Providence sends us so many different things." The client is displaying a(n) ____.

Which of the following represents a potential limitation of reflection of feeling?

How might you encourage a client who resists emotion to express feelings more fully?

Discuss how the skill of acknowledgment of feeling may be useful in settings outside of counseling and interviewing.

Barry: (Jiggling his feet and shuffling restlessly) I can't get the scene from the World Trade Center bombing off my mind.It keeps coming up in my dreams again and again.I don't understand what's going on. Which is the most appropriate response?

Instructions: Classify each of the following counseling leads as a paraphrase, encourage, or reflection of feeling. Client: If it were just my arthritis, I think I could deal with it, but I didn't expect to have muscle spasms and leg cramps so bad I can't walk as well.I feel totally useless. -____ "I hear you saying you are very discouraged and hurting right now.Am I hearing you correctly?"

Reflecting feelings is central to every helping professional.

Instructions: Which of the following client emotional presentations are sensorimotor, concrete, formal operational, or dialectic / systemic? -____ "As I think about it, my religion has always been and always will be a real comfort to me."

Feelings guide our cognitive decisions.