FRHD 3400 Chapter 7: chapter 7

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

Document Summary

Identify the key emotions of a client and feed them back to clarify the affective response. The client will then experience and understand their emotional state more fully and talk more in depth about emotions and feelings. Focus on content and clarifies what has been communicated. Reflecting feelings is to recognize the key emotional words used by the client. Reflections may help the client explore deeper unsaid things. Involves a typical set of verbal responses that can be used in variety of ways. Sentence stem: choose i hear you are feeling or sound like you feel . Feeling label: add an emotional word or feeling to the stem eg jonathan, you seem to feel bad about or sounds like you"re discouraged today; you look like you feel really down . Context or brief paraphrase: you may add a brief paraphrase to broaden the reflection of feelings the words about, when and because can add context to a reflection of feelings.