Exam 7: Commonly Used Skills: Affirmation Giving, Encouragement, Modeling, Self-Disclosure, Confrontation, Offering Alternatives, Information Giving, Advice Giving, and Collaboration

Clinicians will act as models for their clients, regardless of whether or not they want to be.

Which of the following is not a drawback of using problem-focused skills?

Your client tells you that he believes in never hitting children, and then he reveals that he periodically loses control and slaps his daughter. You say to him, "Tell me how you make sense of this behavior as it seems it is contrary to what you believe." This is an example of what kind of confrontation?

Self-disclosure should be practiced frequently so that clients can feel as if the helper is his or her friend.

Challenging a client to view his or her situation differently by offering an alternative reality is what kind of technique?

Collaboration in the counseling relationship tells the client you respect his or her opinion and would like his or her feedback about the course of treatment.

Content self-disclosure is similar to the concept of "immediacy."