Micro Skills Counseling
COUNSELLING MICROSKILLS:
OVERVIEW
IMCT©
Skills to be trained
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Counselling Microskills I The Four Corners Reflection of Feeling and Content Opening and Closing Questions 5-minute exercise I-Wish brainstorming Mind Maps
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Counselling Microskills II Self-disclosure Advanced Accurate Empathy Immediacy Confrontation
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Counselling Microskills III
Summarization Goal Setting Therapeutic Alliance Suicidality and its Assessment Counselling Checklist
THE FOUR CORNERS The Four Corners Of Counselling First Corner – Clarify & accessing Information Intention 1- To clarify and to gather information for your own benefit. Use: Reflection of content/paraphrasing to clarify. Use opening and closing questions and summarizations to gather more information. Use minimal prompts, encouragers and reflection of feeling.
Second Corner- Rapport & Understanding Intention 2 - To offer empathy and understanding to the client and build rapport, relationship and trust. To encourage emotional release when appropriate. Use: Reflection of feeling, meaning, warmth, respect, genuiness and congruence.
Third Corner- Deepen Understanding & take action Intention 3- to encourage deeper connections in the client’s view of themselves and their world. To see themselves as part of the bigger picture. To encourage them in taking responsibility and finally action Use: Advanced empathy, empathic summarizations, meaning and values clarification, immediacy, self-disclosure and goal setting. (Also known as challenging skills.)
Fourth Corner- The doorway! Using specific therapies Intention 4- to encourage opening of defenses and use of other therapeutic regimes and skills. To encourage deeper healing, understanding and emotional release and resolution, especially past psychological defenses. Use: “First 3 corner skills” with specific therapies in mind to target specific thoughts, emotions, body experiences and unconscious parts (IMT’s).
RESPONDING Skills: Reflection of
OVERVIEW
IMCT©
Skills to be trained
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Counselling Microskills I The Four Corners Reflection of Feeling and Content Opening and Closing Questions 5-minute exercise I-Wish brainstorming Mind Maps
•
Counselling Microskills II Self-disclosure Advanced Accurate Empathy Immediacy Confrontation
•
Counselling Microskills III
Summarization Goal Setting Therapeutic Alliance Suicidality and its Assessment Counselling Checklist
THE FOUR CORNERS The Four Corners Of Counselling First Corner – Clarify & accessing Information Intention 1- To clarify and to gather information for your own benefit. Use: Reflection of content/paraphrasing to clarify. Use opening and closing questions and summarizations to gather more information. Use minimal prompts, encouragers and reflection of feeling.
Second Corner- Rapport & Understanding Intention 2 - To offer empathy and understanding to the client and build rapport, relationship and trust. To encourage emotional release when appropriate. Use: Reflection of feeling, meaning, warmth, respect, genuiness and congruence.
Third Corner- Deepen Understanding & take action Intention 3- to encourage deeper connections in the client’s view of themselves and their world. To see themselves as part of the bigger picture. To encourage them in taking responsibility and finally action Use: Advanced empathy, empathic summarizations, meaning and values clarification, immediacy, self-disclosure and goal setting. (Also known as challenging skills.)
Fourth Corner- The doorway! Using specific therapies Intention 4- to encourage opening of defenses and use of other therapeutic regimes and skills. To encourage deeper healing, understanding and emotional release and resolution, especially past psychological defenses. Use: “First 3 corner skills” with specific therapies in mind to target specific thoughts, emotions, body experiences and unconscious parts (IMT’s).
RESPONDING Skills: Reflection of
References: Egan, G., 1986, The skilled helper, Brookes/Cole Belmont, Cal. Egan, G. (2002). The skilled helper. California: Brooks Cole. Reference Written by Dr Cate Howell and Brian Williams, (2000) From MHAP KIT Williams, B., Howell, C., Rayner, C & Hart, M, 2003.