Essay Questions

Chapter 3: Individual Counseling Skills

1: Write about a personal experience with a person who helped you in some important way in life. Describe the traits that he or she exhibited that you admire.
2: Interview a client (or a classmate), and complete a process recording. Identify the types of responses you used, how often you used them, and their effects on the interviewee.
3: Describe four types of attending skills, their purposes, and examples of each.
4: Describe when it is and is not appropriate and useful to use confrontation, interpretation, and self-disclosure.
5: Describe and give examples of transference and countertransference.
6: Describe how emotional issues affect client’s behavior and how to elicit and discuss emotions with clients.
7: Describe what “leading skills” are and how to use them.
8: Describe the stages of change model and give examples of each stage.
9: Describe what might be a crisis for a client and what steps could be taken to resolve them.
10: Describe how you would handle a client who demonstrates suicidal ideation.
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