Fundamental Therapy Skills – Flashcards

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According to Carkhuff, what causes people to begin to ask fundamental life questions? Why?
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They are stripped of their formal roles due to the progression of culture.
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Carkhuff categorizes all counseling models under what two rubrics?
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Insight and Action
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HRD
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Human Resource Development
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Helping effectiveness can be accounted for by what two factors?
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Responding and Initiating
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Research suggests that helpers with higher levels of _____________ skills, confront more effectively.
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Responsive skills
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Responding
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entering helpee's frame of reference and accurately communicating understanding, empathizing, and facilitating exploration
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Initiating
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Developing a course of action to resolve the helper's problems, disclose/confront, facilitate action
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What are "pre helping" skills and what are there purpose?
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non-verbal skills in the involvement stage of helping to increase verbal output of the speaker
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What does Carkhuff mean by spread or range of effects?
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variability
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Historical therapy outcome research data suggests lasting positive effects in what percent of cases?
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17-20%
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What does Carkhuff mean by "understanding"?
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the necessary meditational process between exploring and acting
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Helpee involvement is ________________.
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far from the norm
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A person remembers ____ of what they hear.
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1/2
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What is the relationship of helpee talking quantity to helpee improvement?
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positively correlated relationship
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Which of Carkhuff's basic helping skills are necessary and sufficient for change?
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Personalizing and Initiating
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Personalizing
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Helps helpee to programmatically develop insights
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"teaching is treatment"
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Training clients directly in skills they need to function in society
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The immediate purpose of responding is:
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to influence self-exploration
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Intrapersonal processing
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exploring human experience, understanding human goals, and acting upon programs to achieve the goals
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Interpersonal processing
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enables a person to relate to the experiences of others
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What does Carkhuff mean by helpee involvement?
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That the helpee is involved by being prepared for processing by giving their attention to personally relevant experiences.
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attending
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Involves communicating an undivided attentiveness to show that you are interested in the experiences of the helpee
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Three components of attending
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Attend Physically, observe, and listen
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What are the 2 purposes of attending?
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Focuses helper's observing and listening skills on helpees verbal and behavioral expressions of experiences and Facilitates helpee involvement and Communicates intense interest in experiences of helpee, motivating them to be involved
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What are the 4 behavioral elements of attending physically?
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Facing, squaring, leaning toward and eye contact
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Accurate responding stimulates...
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further exploration
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Respond to content
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reflecting or communicating back to the helpee what they are saying
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Respond to feeling
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reflecting how the helpees feel about what they are saying
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Respond to meaning
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putting feeling and content together in a response
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Helpers draw from their own_____ to facilitate helpee _____________
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understanding; understanding of the meaning of their experiences
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Helpee understanding = helpee taking responsibility for what 2 roles?
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Responsibility for their problems and goals
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5 components of initiating.
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Define goals Develop programs Design schedule and reinforcements Prepare to implement steps Plan check steps
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What do you think Carkhuff means by the "myth of independency?"
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it is impossible for a person to function alone
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What does Carkhuff mean by "We are all losers!"
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when we fail to attend we communicate that they don't matter and we also miss what they have to offer
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In its broadest sense attending simply means
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paying attention
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The function of attending for the helper is
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learning
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According to Carkhuff there are only 3 relationship behavior choices. What are they?
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Fight, flight, relate
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The function of attending for the helpee is
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to engage and involve them
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4 attending skills
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Preparing for Attending Attending personally Observing Listening
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Sub-categories of the first attending skill
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prepare helpees, prepare context, prepare helpers
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preparing content
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A neat and orderly context A familiar context A facilitative context
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Attending personally involves proximity and
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posturing
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3 specific helper behaviors of attending personally
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squaring,leaning,eye contact
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How does Carkhuff define observing (skills), i.e., observing skills involve the helper's ability to see and understand what 2 helpee factors?
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energy,feeling, and readiness to understand appearance and behavior
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According to Carkhuff what is the richest source of data concerning helpee feelings
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Facial expressions
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What does Carkhuff mean by incongruence
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Incongruence is not being consistent in behavior or appearance.
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What is the overall richest source of helper empathy?
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Helpee's verbal expressions
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5 components of listening.
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Have a reason for listening Suspend judgment Focus upon help and content Recall expressions Recall themes
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What is Carkhuff's reason for listening?
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Prepares us for responding empathically to our helpees
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What does Carkhuff mean by suspending judgment?
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Letting the helpee's message sink in without trying to make a decision about them
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Which component of listening is the most important and how is it achieved?
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Focus upon the helpee, resist distractions
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Define "content."
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The details about the helpee's experiences 5WH
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Why do ppl resist listening?
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the implication of intimacy
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"...there is no such thing as independence..."
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we were meant for fellowship, not isolation
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2 sets of responding skills
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Discriminating accurately the dimensions of the helpees' experiences Communicating accurately to the helpees the dimensions we have perceived
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Responding to content clarifies...?
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The ingredients of the helpees' experiences allows helper to personalize understanding of helpee
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Responding to feeling clarifies...?
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The affect attached to the experience
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Responding facilitates...?
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Helpee's exploration of where they are in relation to their worlds (helpee exploring)
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Responding stimulates...?
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Helpee exploring
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Responding reinforces...?
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Helpee exploring
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What is Carkhuff's antithesis of parroting?
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Do not repeat what client said verbatim, but paraphrase back to them to capture the purpose of what they said.
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Asking a series of questions helps the helper to focus on______ as opposed to _________.
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what they are saying as opposed to what the helper wants to talk about
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What is the most critical single skill in the helping process?
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Responding to feeling
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"Empathy Question?"
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"How would I feel if I were the helpee"
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What does Carkhuff mean by the phrase "a response that is interchangeable with feelings?"
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If both the helper and the helpee express the same feeling, hearing them, thinking how you would feel, then repeating back to them your perception of how they feel, based on what they said, and how you'd feel.
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What does Carkhuff mean by an "interchangeable base of communication"?
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provides opportunity to check accuracy of our understanding of what the helpee's been communicating. This is critical for relationship to develop
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What does Carkhuff mean by "internalizing" and is this different from helpee "understanding?"
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internalizing making the helpees accountable for their experiences. They focus on themselves rather than their environment, leads to understanding
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How do helpees alert us as to their readiness to move into personalizing levels?
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By doing for themselves what we have been doing for them
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The main data used in formulating a personalized meaning response is the immediate individual helpee expression?
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False, we formulate interchangeable responses to the helpee's expressions made over a period of time.
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What sentence format is suggested for use in "personalizing meaning" of the helpee experience?
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you feel _____ because you_____
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Define personalizing the problem.
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"what is there about the helpees themselves that is contributing to the problems?"
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Carkhuff's 5 scaling categories for assessing levels of HRD functioning
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Detractor, observer, participant, contributor, leader
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Personalized goals
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Determined behaviors that are opposite the personalized problem. The goal can be described as the "flip side" of the problem (ideal self)
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5 elements of INITIATING
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Define goals, develop programs, design schedule and reinforcements, prepare to implement steps, and plan to check steps
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Carkhuff's two elements of "defining the goal."
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Define the 5WH and define a standard to measure the basic question of direction "how will we know when we have reached our goal?
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Carkhuff's definition of "program."
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Step by step procedures for achieving the goals
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Carkhuff's definitions of "reinforcement."
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Things that matter to us- most affective when applied following the performance of a step
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How does Carkhuff recommend that we use ourselves as reinforcers?
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Coming from their frame of reference, and using empathy as source of reinforcement
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What is Carkhuff's reason to live?
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to grow
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Carkhuff believes that understanding of others is contingent upon understanding of self?
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True
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What does Carkhuff mean by saying that you never understand a person until you know what he has not experienced?
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We will not understand their expressions of responsiveness until we understand essentially, what really drives a person verses what they say drives them.
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The need to act is a natural extension of responding to what is not there."
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A person is as much a function of what he is not as of what he is. It is what he is not that he reaches to become. Helpees are motivated by the behavior they want to have. if I have not understood what is not there, I cannot respond to what is there.
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Why does Carkhuff believe that people need each other?
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We need to see others to come to realize what we're missing
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What is Carkhuff's basis for value judgements?
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Behavior is either helpful or harmful to himself or others
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Give a Carkhuffian example of destroy and "death forces."
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Training, retaining or firing a 2nd grade teacher who produces only 7 months reading growth in 1 year
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What does Carkhuff mean by being "differential" in the way we regard others?
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Communicating positive regard for positive behaviors and conditional or negative regard for negative behaviors. Not accepting the other person for less than they are capable of being.
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What determines our effectiveness?
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That we are as effective as the quantity and quality of skills we have in our response repertoires. Best equipped people are most effective teachers.
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How does Rogers define a "helping relationship?"
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A relationship in which at least one of the parties has the intent of promoting growth, development, maturity, improved functioning, improved coping with life of the other
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research findings of the Ends & Page and the Halkides studies.
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Therapy based upon a learning theory approach was somewhat deleterious. Analytically oriented show some positive gain and client-centered as associated with the greatest amount of positive change
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According to Rogers, the client perception of the attitude of the therapist is more determinant of the success of the therapy than therapist theoretical orientation?
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True
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What are Carlson's two basic assumptions?
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Christ is greater than theology and theology and science are compatible
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According to Carlson, when is integration impossible?
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When the personality of the counselor is not integrated
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How does Carlson define counseling?
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Advice giving coupled with interventive strategies
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What was Jesus' style of relating? (counseling)?
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Multi-modal; priestly, prophetic and pastoral
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According to prof, personalizing is:
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additive
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According to prof, personalizing the feeling emphasizes:
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attunement
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The prof criticizes Carkhuff in that he:
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calls clients "unable"
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Personalizing meaning facilitates
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beginning and taking intermediate steps
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How does Proverbs 18:13 suggest a biblical counseling model?
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Counselors should listen before answering.
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Carkhuff's intrapersonal processing:
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involving, exploring, understanding, and acting
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Carkhuff's interpersonal processing
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attending, responding, Personalizing, and initiating.
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Critique of Carkhuff: definition of "good" because
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Ultimate goals of growth are not addressed in value
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Critique of Carkhuff: He does not address the possibilities of
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normal and abnormal growth in value terms.
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According to prof, 4 specific helper behaviors of attending personally/ physically?
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Face Incline No distractions Eye contact
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verbal-nonverbal:
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nonword characteristics of spoken communication
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The Ministry of Listening
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The listening Nature of God The listening imperative, Demonstration
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According to prof, responding elements
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empathy, respect, curiosity, and specificity
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According to prof, initiating elements
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Concretness, self-disclosure, confrontation, immediacy
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