Human Services/Psychology - Keys to Strength Based Interviewing

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In a 2 page paper identify some of the keys to a strengths-based interview. What are the importance of compliments during the initial interview? Include an explanation of what is meant by "client competence." Finally, distinguish the differences between the diagnostic perspective and the strengths perspective.


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- 2 pages, double spaced minimum

- 12 pt. Font - Times New Roman

- APA format

- Reference Page

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Module 04 - Elements of Strength Based Interviewing When helpers use the strength based approach they help clients to operate through an understanding of competence and strength rather than problems and deficiencies. Guidelines to the Strength Based Perspective • Listen to clients • Acknowledge clients pain. • Look for and point out strengths. • Accept clients. . Compliment • Ask questions about client interests, exceptions to the problem survival, support, dreams, and goals. • Connect strengths to goals. • Educate clients about their resilient factors and help them learn to act using their competencies. Empowerment prevents people from feeling alienated, as they are then linked to others. Guidelines to Empower Clients • Working from the notion that clients can change if they choose, not seeing clients as victims. • Sharing the helping process with clients, helping clients see counseling sessions as work sessions. • Becoming a consultant to clients, accepting helping as a natural, two-way influence process. • Focusing on learning instead of helping, and not seeing clients as overly fragile. Pathology vs. Solution Based approach Pathology Based Approach Solution Based Approach What is this client doing in his life that is problematic for What is this client doing in his life that is beneficial for him? him? Where is this client going wrong in life? Where is this client going right in life? How is the client acting negatively toward the therapist? How is the client acting positively toward the therapist? What are this client's problems? What are this client's strengths? Pathology vs. Solution Based approach Pathology Based Approach Solution Based Approach What is this client doing in his life that is problematic for What is this client doing in his life that is beneficial for him? him? Where is this client going wrong in life? Where is this client going right in life? How is the client acting negatively toward the therapist? How is the client acting positively toward the therapist? What are this client's problems? What are this client's strengths? What don't you like about this client? What do you like about this client? What five adjectives would you use to describe this client? What five adjectives would you use to describe this client? Watch and Learn Martin Seligman: The New Era of Positive Psychology. The Miracle Question The miracle question is a type of solution-oriented question and allows clients to describe/imagine life without the problem. It is future orientated in that it encourages clients to consider a different kind of life than the one dominated by the problem. The miracle question focuses clients in on solution focused in that it encourages clients to search for solutions. Examples: "How will you know when things are better?" "What will be some of the things you will notice when life is better?" For more information, read Constructing a Conversational "Miracle". Examining the "Miracle Question" as It Is Used in Therapeutic Dialogue. By: Strong, Tom; Pyle, Nathan R. Journal of Constructivist Psychology. Oct-Dec2009, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p328-353.26p. 5 Practice
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Keys to strength-based interview

A strength-based interview focuses on the unique abilities of the interviewee
(Schlechter, 2016). The main aim of the strength-based interview is to establish the
interviewee’s interests. It seeks to draw from what the client has and does effectively rather
than determining what he cannot. The following are some of the critical components of
strength-based interviews.
Listening is a major ingredient of a strength-based interview (Manthey et al., 2013).
The interviewer poses an open question and the interviewee answers freely. Such freedom
offers the interviewer an opportunity to establish the interest of the interviewer. At this point,
the interviewer has an opportunity to establish the strengths of the inter...


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