Exam 10: Basic Responding Skills

To be ___________________means to put aside expectations or preconceived ideas of what the client might be saying based on one's own past associations. It means the counselor will listen to the entire story as a unique report of the client's reality.

If you talk while the client is speaking, stop immediately and let the client finish.

Three kinds of _________________ encouragers are _________________.

Primary empathy is the ability to tell the client:

In contrast to restatements, paraphrases increase the likelihood of parroting.

Paraphrases are the simplest interventions available to counselors.

What is the difference between paraphrasing and summarization? When would you use each?

When you ________________________, the clear message is that you know more than the other person about his or her own story.

When you listen without evaluating,

Neophyte counselors can confuse interpretation of content with content itself.

If the client interrupts you or steps in while you are speaking, make a nonverbal gesture that conveys to the client that he or she needs to wait to speak until you are finished.

Summarization allows clients to correct our misperceptions.

When are counselors most likely to respond to content? What are the four basic skills they use?

Which of the following statements is/are true with regard to the skill of summarization in counseling?

Silence lets individuals think through what they want to say and consider what they have just said.

Encouragers add nothing and suggest nothing. They do not lead the client in any particular direction.

______________________uses the client's language and level of intensity to feed back an important aspect of what has been said. It repeats the basic idea using the same words but not necessarily in the same order.

In paraphrasing a client's message, if the counselor believes the client to be more visual than aural, he or she might use "seeing" words over "hearing" words.

In a real counseling session, basic responding skills are:

Restatements and paraphrases: