PSY 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Professional Boundaries, Therapeutic Relationship, Psychodynamics
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Six influencing responses - supposed to be about the client (their needs) Used to aid client disclosure through helper modeling. Be careful to not take up too much of the airtime yourself. Conscious use of self-disclosure can build rapport and foster therapeutic alliance by increasing helper"s authenticity, promoting feelings of universality, and increasing trust. Increase your own authenticity ( vulnerability ) - most clients want to know more about their therapist. Direct is intentional revelation of helper personal information or experience via self-disclosing statements. Indirect is unintentional self-disclosure communicated through helper"s nonverbal behavior (e. g. , intonation, facial expression, gestures, posture) Sometimes driven by own biases or emotional reactions to things (may not be useful to client) Not unconditional positive regard - but a position of nonjudgement (don"t want to communicate personal judgements or biases) Things around office can be self-disclosures (i. e. family photos) Psychodynamics - discouraged to have any personal photographs in the office.
