Exam 2: The Domain of Connecting With and Engaging the Client: Listening

Reframing a client's narrative helps them to see their struggle or situation from a different and positive, but equally valid, perspective .

When a therapist is engaging in a reframing intervention, it is important for him/her to "sell" the perspective to a client, telling them what they have done right/wrong, and fighting/confronting them when necessary.

_________________ are paradoxical interventions consisting of a simple, unexpected, ironic therapist response to certain disagreeable client verbalizations or behaviors.

Which paradoxical intervention provides new meaning or perspective for a problematic concern?

_______________ is the process of contrasting a thing with its opposite in order to create new meaning, and is inherent to effective reframing.

When a therapist advocates (benignly) for the status quo, they suggest or instruct a client to ________________, but for benevolent reasons.

Allowing a client to make negativistic, inflammatory comments about the therapist or the therapy can help to maintain a sense of equality in the therapeutic relationship, thereby preventing the therapist from being elevated above the client.

A therapist must endeavor to see a client's point of view in order to uncover the __________ in their perspective.

A paradox is defined as, "a statement or proposition seemingly _____________, and yet explicable as _______________."

A paradoxical intervention is safe to use when a therapist is trying to understand a client's perspective.

A paradoxical intervention, in its ____________, allows clients to _____________________.

Accepting praise or elevation from a client can place the therapist on a pedestal, and can result in the therapist being blamed responsible for treatment failure or a client's sabotage of the therapy.

One way to determine an appropriate reframe intervention is to look for what ______________ can be derived from a client's symptom.

One effective way to neutralize a sincere complement from a client is to:

When is it important or beneficial to implement the use of a Neutralizer paradoxical intervention in therapy?