SAR HP 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Briey
19 Mar 2019
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Skilled counselors use questions to serve a variety of purposes: Determining the accuracy of your perception or getting more information. Sharpening the counseling focus in a particular way. Open questions will likely result in a person answering with a lengthy response (wh- questions). Open questions will result in the client continuing to talk and giving you more material, some of which may be pertinent to the counseling focus. Closed questions seek a speci c response, often one that can be offered with a single word (start with: is, are, do, did, could, would, have). Mechanical aspects of questioning: asking question is directing, because the client"s response will take the focus of discussion in a particular direction. One basic choose will make as you ask questions will be whether you wish to place the focus on the content of the client"s story, or the client"s subjective experience about the story, which is a process-oriented direction.
