FRHD 3400 Chapter 12-13: Chapter 12 & 13

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3400
• Professor: John Beaton

Document Summary

Chapter 12 self disclosure and feedback immediacy and genuineness in counseling and therapy. As the counsellor, share your own related past personal life experience, here and now obswervations or feelings toward the client, or opinions about the future. Self disclosure often starts with and i statement. As sessions go on, self disclosure can encourage the client, and provide additional trust between them, establishing more equal relationship. Keep self disclosures short and succinct, then return focus to client. Empathic understanding requires us to separate ourselves from client"s emotional and cognitive issues while simultaneously being fully conscious of them as we seek to walk in their shoes and see things as they see them. Another type of counter transference occurs when your self disclosure is too distant from clients concern this takes away from focus on client: self disclosure should be relevant and timely. The skill of self disclosure: listen be sure your disclosure is relevant to clients issue.