Basic Counseling Skills - Chapter 5

Reflecting skills communicate

a desire to explore deeper feelings, nonjudgmental understanding and a condensed version of thoughts and feelings

Reflecting feelings is valuable in a helping relationship because

it can expose hidden feelings

Which of the following is not a positive outcome of reflecting feelings?

it allows the helper to model positive values

A client's ability to be aware of emotions and express them is often guided by

culture, family and gender

The second step of reflecting feelings is

articulation the underlying emotions

The basic or primary emotions include

anger

When reflecting feelings this occurs when the helper reflects a feeling that is MORE intense than the client expressed

overshooting

When reflecting feelings this occurs when the helper reflects a feeling that is LESS intense than the client expressed

undershooting

This is the "ability to monitor one's own and other's feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions

emotional intelligence

All of the following are common problems in reflecting feelings EXCEPT

connecting feelings with a paraphrase