Intentional Counseling

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Chapter 1

• Intentional Counseling
• and Interviewing

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Key Distinctions

• Interviewing basic process for information
  gathering, problem solving, advice giving
• Counseling Helping people cope with normal
  problems and opportunities
• Psychotherapy process focused on deep-seated
  personality or behavioral difficulties

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Intentionality

• Ability to use a variety of skills and personal
  qualities to adapt styles to suit different
  individuals and cultures
• It is not focused on the one right answer
• How many potential responses may be helpful

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Cultural Intentionality

• Awareness that cultural groups have different
  patterns of communitation

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Intentional Competence

• Ability to predict and anticipate the
  consequences of what you say in a session

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Microskills

• Single communication skill units

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Microskills Hierarchy

• Personal style and theory
• Skill Integration
• Influencing skills and strategies
• Reflection of meaning
• Focusing
• Confrontation
• Five-stage interview structure
• Reflection of feeling
• Encouraging, paraphrasing, and summarizing
• Client observation skills
• Open and closed questions
• Attending behavior
• Ethics and multicultural competence