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Exploring Responding Skills in Counseling Sessions

Learn and apply reflective, paraphrasing, and summarizing skills in counseling to enhance client understanding and communication. Practice these skills to validate feelings, understand experiences, and facilitate problem resolution effectively.

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Exploring Responding Skills in Counseling Sessions

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  1. Aim: To discuss the term responding skillsTo reproduce counselling skills learned so far Objectives: Describe 3 responding skills Identify the purpose of each skill Apply skills in a practice session

  2. Reflective Responding Reflective responding is helpful:-

  3. To show that you have understood your client • When you need to find out if you are understood • To validate another person’s feelings • To enable someone to understand themselves • When someone needs help in expressing thoughts and feelings

  4. When someone is trying to resolve a problem • To establish responsibility for feelings and responses.

  5. Paraphrasing • This is similar to reflecting but usually more content is reflected back when paraphrasing and it therefore takes longer. • You may paraphrase at intervals throughout a session. Paraphrasing responses may be tentative, even questioning in tone.

  6. They present the client’s experiences in a different way. • They do not contain the listener’s own views.

  7. Some tips:- • State the main facts. • Use fewer words • Use different words • Use the same level of language • End with the main feeling

  8. Summarising • The session can be brought to an end with a summary of the main thoughts, feelings and experiences contained in the session. • The summary is similar to a paraphrase but is sometimes longer. • The points relevant to paraphrasing apply to summarising.

  9. It is useful for:- • Reminding the client of material that has been covered • Reminding the client of emotions that have been touched upon. • Keeping time boundaries gently. • Providing a link for the next session.

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