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The counselor-client relationship is a _____.

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Collaborative process

  • Bilateral, not unilateral
  • Adopting a collaborative stance can help discover new patterns, insights, behaviors, and experience
  • 2 person psychology
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The therapist does not change people, but _____ change.

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Facilitates

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What are the common methods introduced by Prochaska?

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  • Consciousness-raising
  • Social liberation
  • Emotional arousal
  • Self-Reevaluation
  • Commitment
  • Countering (counter conditioning)
  • Environmental control
  • Rewards
  • Helping relationships
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Describe Consciousness-raising:

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facilitate conversation, be curious, awareness increases on its own in the client

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Describe social liberation:

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what’s the external environment for the client, and does it support change?

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Describe emotional arousal:

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Usually directly related to the issue; usually has to deal with loss; connect client to the issue and get them to see how it effects them

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Describe self-reevaluation:

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Conversation that facilitates the client thinking about themselves in a different way; the client talking about the pros and cons instead of the counselor telling them

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Describe commitment:

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Can you get client to make a decision and accept responsibility to change?

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Describe countering:

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AKA counterconditioning. Help the client replace negative behavior with positive

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Describe environmental control:

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Changing parts of the environment that are controllable

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Describe rewards:

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Internal and external, find what’s meaningful to the client and allow them to create rewards for themselves

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Describe helping relationships

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Who can you get involved to help the client? AA sponsors, family, friends…

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When the therapists approach doesn’t match the client’s stage of readiness for change, the client may feel forced into change, that he/she doesn’t want to make and as a result:

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  • May feel the therapist doesn’t care/understand their need or struggle
  • May resist change and withdrawal
  • May resist change and leave therapy
  • May comply to please therapist (especially if this is similar to their past experience)
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A therapist’s ability to match the client’s stage of readiness for change helps the client through it with _____.

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Less trial and error and less distress

  • This collaborative awareness leads to a or many “a-ha” moments for clients
  • Ex: Discovery = longer lasting change
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List the phases in Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model

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Phase 1: Pre-contemplation
Phase 2: Contemplation
Phase 3: Preparation
Phase 4: Action
Phase 5: Maintenance/Relapse
Phase 6: Relapse/Termination
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Describe Phase 1 of Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model:

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Clients usually don’t believe they have an issue; aren’t interested in help

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Client Language in Phase 1 of Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model:

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  • I don’t have a problem.
  • They made me come.
  • I’ve tried this before and it didn’t work.
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Client Characteristics in Phase 1 of Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model:

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  • Defensive, resistant, lack awareness, pressured, uncommitted
  • Denial, minimization
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Therapist’s Strategy in Phase 1 of Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model:

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  • Demonstrate great attending skills
  • Engage in nonthreatening open discussion
  • U-turn, raise ambivalence
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Therapist’s Questions in Phase 1 of Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model:

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  • Do you believe there is a problem?
  • Why do you think others believe there is a problem?
  • What would happen for you to know that there may be a problem?
  • Have you tried to change in the past? What happened?
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Describe Phase 2 of Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model:

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  • Client is aware of a problem and has spent a lot of time thinking about it
  • Often present here and often stay here; at this point in the journey, they see the cost of change as being too high (AKA Chronic Contemplation-needs all the answers, to know exactly what will happen)
  • They’re so used to the problem, that to change is more problematic (in their mind) than the problem itself
  • Secondary Gains: the client may not want to give up certain things
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Client Language in Phase 2 of Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model:

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  • I would like to change but…
  • I feel like I’m stuck
  • I’m just not sure I want to do that right now
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Client Characteristics in Phase 2 of Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model:

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  • Seeking understanding
  • Distressed
  • Previous attempts with failure
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Therapist’s Strategy in Phase 2 of Prochaska’s Changes of Phase Model:

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  • Empathy is key here - validate their struggles and offer hope
  • Get them thinking about the possibility of change and increase confidence
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Therapist's Questions in Phase 2 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Why do you want to change at this time? - What keeps you from not changing? - What might help you overcome these barriers? - How have you overcome difficult things in the past?
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Describe Phase 3 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Clients making plans to take specific actions to chance - What resources does the client have available? Family, support groups… - Therapist should make plans for potential relapse with client
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Client Language in Phase 3 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- It really has gotten out of control | - I need to do something about it
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Client Characteristics in Phase 3 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Intentionality/readiness - Engaged in the process - On the verge
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Therapist's Strategy in Phase 3 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Help client gather info about what they need to change their behavior - Help client assess what it would take to change - Help devise a specific workable plan of action
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Therapist's Questions in Phase 3 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- What resources are available for you to change? - What support system do you have available? - What do you think you could do to begin to bring about change?
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Describe Phase 4 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Talked about it, thought about it, prepared for it | - Started abstaining, maybe gone to detox
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Client Language in Phase 4 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- I think I'm ready to work on this now | - So what can I do to get started?
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Client Characteristics in Phase 4 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Solid decision - Motivated (internal/external) - Open to feedback
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Therapist's Strategy in Phase 4 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
Help client set realistic goals and develop practical methods
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Therapist's Questions in Phase 4 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- When things begin to change, how will you know? - How can you avoid a slip/relapse? - If you do slip, how can you get refocused again?
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What are some of the issues seen during the first 4 stages of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model?
- Get through denial - Simplifying, minimizing, rationalizing, intellectualizing, diversion, hostility - Resistance - anything that prevents the client from tapping into unconscious - Roll with resistance, be aware of counter-transference
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What are clinical strategies during the first 4 stages of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model?
- Maintain rapport - Support/present a realistic view of change through small, successive steps - Acknowledge the difficulty of change (especially early in process) - Help client identify triggers and high risk situations, then develop alternatives and explore coping strategies - Assess client support system - Offering insight - Empathic validation leads to therapeutic bond (especially necessary for challenge/discrepancy) - Removing barriers/decreasing desirability - Offering new perspective and providing choice - Clarify goals/active helping - Offer support and HOPE
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Describe Phase 5 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Clients are doing what they have prepared for and their new goal needs to shift toward maintaining the gains they've experienced thus far
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Client Language in Phase 5 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- I can't believe how far I've come. - Why did it take me so long to do this? - I'm still working, but I'm beginning to feel so much better
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Client Characteristics in Phase 5 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Actively working to sustain change | - Some fear/anxiety of failure
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Therapist's Strategy in Phase 5 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Encourage, support - Remind them of the progress they've made - Be aware of relapse potential and help client navigate them
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Therapist's Questions in Phase 5 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- What could potentially throw you off track right now? How can you avoid that?
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Describe Phase 6 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Clients who've overcome their issue(s) also maintain their desired behavior on their own. - They have a clear direction and can distinguish between old and new life - Confidence/self-efficacy is usually evident and high
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Client Language in Phase 6 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- I never want to go back there again. - I can't see myself doing that anymore. - I feel so much better now.
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Client Characteristics in Phase 6 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- Celebrate change with your clients - Remind them how far they've come and of progress made. - Re-discuss relapse - Begin termination discussion - Leave relationship open for future needs
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Therapist's remarks in Phase 6 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- I'm so proud of you! - So, let's reflect on what this experience has been like for you. - I really think you're doing well on your own and it's time to discuss ending therapy for right now.
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Therapist's input regarding relapse in Phase 6 of Prochaska's Changes of Phase Model:
- When clients relapse, they often feel a sense of failure, which undermines their confidence regarding overcoming the problem. - Remind them that relapse is not a final destination but an opportunity to examine why and how the slip occurred and a chance to reflect and learn new skills - The potential for relapse is high - they should prepare for it and expect it
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Describe loss of control:
- Rotter - describes the degree to which individuals believe that reinforcements are contigent upon their behavior - Internal - what we do affects outcomes in our lives (easies to change) - External - believe that other evens and people control outcome (weakest determination of change)
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Learned helplessness & Learned Optimism are directly related to _____.
Locus of control
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People with learned helplessness believe that bad events are:
- Global: it affects everything I do - Stable: happens all the time - Internal: It's my fault, I'm flawed, defected, there's no hope for me
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People with learned optimism believe that bad events are:
- Specific: He/she didn't like that comment I made - Temporary: only a problem right now - External: my parents are fighting because of their inability to get along, not because of me
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Define Secondary Gains:
All the elements for change are in place, but there is no change. - Means they are gaining something from the addiction
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Define Unconscious Motivations:
Strong internal beliefs that affect outcome
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Define Tertiary Gains:
A desire to please the therapist; therapist becomes image of parent/role model they never had, client does not want to let you down
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Define Codependency:
Can only recover as long as a specific person is in their life

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