FRHD 3400 Chapter 6: Chapter 6: Encouraging, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

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

Document Summary

Clients need to know that the counselor or psychotherapist hears what they say, sees their point of view, and feels their world as they retell their experience. Encouraging, paraphrasing, and summarizing are active listening skills. Checkout (e. g. , have i heard you correctly? ) to see how accurate your listening was. The checkout (sometimes called a perception check) lets you confirm the accuracy of your summary. Choosing to focus first on the precipitating crisis is another possible strategy; this can let you restate, paraphrase, and summarize some of her key ideas. If you use encouraging, paraphrasing, or summarizing skills as defined here, you can. Introduction: active listening anticipate how clients will respond. Clients elaborate on the topic, particularly when encouragers and restatements are used in a questioning tone of voice. They tend to give more detail without repeating the exact same story. If a paraphrase is inaccurate, the client has an opportunity to correct the counselor.