Definition: Refers to the counselor pointing out the contradictions existing in the seeker, promoting the seeker's exploration, and finally achieving unity.

Common contradictions among seekers (conditions or prerequisites for using face-to-face interviews)

purpose of interview

Things to note when using face-texturing techniques

A relationship without face-to-face is pale, and a face-to-face without relationship is dangerous.

Definition: Refers to the use of psychological theories to describe the causes and essence of the client's thoughts, emotions and behaviors, or to explain some abstract and complex psychological phenomena and processes.

Interpretation techniques are the most complex of the interviewing techniques

The difference between explanation and content response (paraphrase)

Definition: The counselor directly instructs the client to do something, say something, or act in a certain way.

The most influential consulting technology

Guidance: Directly instruct the client to do, say, and act

Emotional expression: The counselor informs the person seeking help of his or her own moods, emotions, and feelings toward the person seeking help, in order to influence the person seeking help.

The difference with emotional response (saying me-saying you)

Note: Generally, only positive emotions are expressed to the person seeking help, except for negative emotions when expressing empathy.

Content expression: counselors convey information, make suggestions, provide advice, give guarantees, give praise and feedback, so as to influence the seekers and encourage them to achieve the counseling goals.

All influencing technologies are content expressions Guidance, explanation, impactful overview, self-opening, etc. are all expressions of content

The difference between content expression and content reaction: Content expression: consultants express their opinions Content response: The counselor reflects on the client’s narrative

Feedback, advice and suggestions are also a form of content expression, but the wording should be gentle and respectful, otherwise the seeker will feel that he is being educated by the consultant.

Self-opening is also called self-exposure and self-disclosure: the counselor puts forward his or her own emotions, thoughts, and experiences to share with the client.

Self-opening is a special combination of emotional expression and content expression

Two forms of self-openness

Notes on self-opening

Summary: Self-opening should be based on the criteria of helping to promote the counseling relationship, promoting further self-opening and in-depth understanding of oneself by the client, and enhancing the effectiveness of counseling.

Definition: The consultant organizes the topics and opinions he describes and expresses them in a concise and concise form Equivalent to content expression with more content

Overview of influence: The overview is that the views expressed by the counselor have a more active, positive and profound impact on the client. Participatory overview: summarizes the content of the client’s narrative

The role of non-verbal behavior: strengthening speech, coordinating speech, achieving feedback, and conveying emotions

The school of psychoanalysis guides clients to find the root of their problems through free association.

The school of behaviorism guides clients to conduct various behavioral training

[Humanism] The Gestalt school is accustomed to providing role-playing guidance

The rational-emotional school guides seekers to replace unreasonable beliefs with reasonable beliefs.

Simple and easy

Practical and effective

Less subject to time, location, funding and other conditions

Can increase the speed of improvement of the patient’s symptoms

Relaxation therapy is one of the most widely used techniques in behavioral therapy. It is a counseling and treatment method established and developed on the basis of psychological experiments. The biggest feature of behavioral therapy is that the focus of consultation is on observable external behavioral changes. Behavioral therapy believes that as long as "behavior" changes, so-called "attitudes" and "emotions" will also change accordingly.

A person's emotional response consists of three parts: subjective experience, physiological response, and expression.

The basic assumption of relaxation training: changing the physiological response, the subjective experience will also change

The purpose of relaxation training: to train the client to relax his or her body muscles at will, so as to maintain a relaxed state and relieve tension and anxiety.

The consultant introduces the principle: concisely explain the principles and process of relaxation therapy to the client, clarify the client's active role in relaxation therapy, and stimulate the enthusiasm of the client to change himself.

Consultants provide demonstration and guidance

Strengthening exercises for help seekers

Guide the seeker to use mastered relaxation methods to replace anxiety

Precautions for using relaxation therapy