FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: The Techniques, Present Tense, Prefrontal Cortex
27 Nov 2012
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Chapter 7: observing and reflecting feelings: a foundation of client experience. Paraphrasing: feeding back they key points of what they said: emphasis on content. Reflection: observing emotions, naming them, and repeating them back to the client: emphasis on emotion. Reflection of feeling: identify key emotions of client, feed them back to clarify. Predicted result clients will experience and understand their emotional state more fully and talk in depth about feelings. Paraphrasing focus on content and clarification. Start with explicit feelings and use the client"s actual emotional words, then move on to explore unspoken feelings. General social conversations usually ignore feelings, were trained not to focus on this. Generate different words for sad, mad, glad, scared. Primary emotions: sad, mad, glad, scared, surprise, disgust (common in all cultures: each located in a different part of the brain. Feelings are layered, they become more complex. Reflect the basic one, and often they will go deeper.
