Exercises for Introduction to Counseling

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Note to Students Note to Educators About the Author CHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS COUNSELING? A Definition of Counseling Why Be a Counselor? To Seek Help or to Not Seek Help The Counseling Relationship Reasons Why Clients Might or Might Not Improve Counseling: Science or Art? CHAPTER TWO: FIRST RESPONSES The Nature of Responding Rating the Usefulness of Responses Attending Behaviors and Environmental Factors CHAPTER THREE: THE FIRST SESSION The Nature of the First Counseling Session Tips for Beginning Any Session Mistakes New Counselors Make CHAPTER FOUR: EMPATHY, SYMPATHY, AND GIVING ADVICE The Nature of Empathy Giving Advice CHAPTER FIVE: THERAPEUTIC LISTENING SKILLS Effective versus Ineffective Listening Opening Questions and Statements Examples of Opening Questions and Statements Nominal Encouragements Suggesting Collaboration Examples of Statements that Suggest Collaboration Exploration Statements Examples of Exploration Statements Paraphrasing Content Paraphrasing Expressed Feeling Paraphrasing Both Expressed Feeling and Content Summarizing Validating Statements How to Invalidate Someone Some Remarks that Invalidate CHAPTER SIX: ASKING USEFUL QUESTIONS The Nature of Asking Questions Closed-Ended Questions Examples of Closed-Ended Questions Open-Ended Questions Changing Closed-Ended Questions into Open-Ended Questions Finding the Focus of a Question Rules of Thumb When Asking Questions Examples of Questions for Various Purposes Revisiting Exploration Statements Content versus Process CHAPTER SEVEN: EMOTIONS IN COUNSELING The Nature of Emotions Anxiety Sadness Anger Identifying Emotions Appropriate Emotional Expression A General Framework for Helping Clients Assess, Moderate, and Make Use of Their Emotions CHAPTER EIGHT: INTIMACY The Nature of Intimacy The Dynamics of Distancing in Counseling Rules of Thumb Regarding Intimacy Fears in Counseling The Client or the Counselor? Levels of Self-Disclosure Lock Box Considerations Rules of Thumb for Appropriate Self-Disclosure CHAPTER NINE: CLIENT GOALS AND GOAL-SETTING The Nature of Goals and Goal-Setting CHAPTER TEN: SILENCE IN COUNSELING The Nature of Silence in Counseling Prolonged Silence Statements and Questions You Might Use When a Client Is Silent and an Intervention Is Indicated Statements and Question You Might Consider Using When a Client Routinely Becomes Silent across Several Sessions for Long Periods CHAPTER ELEVEN: THERAPEUTIC CONFRONTATION The Nature of Therapeutic Confrontation Styles of Therapeutic Confrontation CHAPTER TWELVE: PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION AND ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS The Nature of Psychotropic Medications The Nature of Non-traditional Medications and Treatments CHAPTER THIRTEEN: PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS The Nature of Psychological Health and Wellness The Intrapersonal Realm The Interpersonal Realm The Environmental Realm CHAPTER FOURTEEN: MAKING REFERRALS The Nature of Making Referrals CHAPTER FIFTEEN: WHEN COUNSELING ENDS The Nature of Ending Counseling When Clients End Counseling Sooner than Expected When Counselors Choose to End Counseling Terminating at the Conclusion of Fruitful Counseling A Portion of a Termination Session CHAPTER SIXTEEN: GRIEVING AND LOSS The Nature of Grieving Grief Counseling Your Patterns in Grieving Responding to Clients