Verbal Following Skills

Verbal Following Skills

1. Summarizing

   • highlight and repeat in new terms, client's own language

2. Reflection Responses

   • acknowledge, sort through feelings, simple vs. complex, double-sided

3. Furthering Responses

   • minimal prompts-non-verbal and verbal, signal attentiveness, encourage client to continue accent responses-repeat as a question

4. Seeking Concreteness

   • responding concretely

5. Close-Ended Responses

   • Yes, no, when, do, is

6. Providing and Maintaining Focus

   • get topic, explore topic, manage obstacles, recognize that you can see their struggles but not understand entirely

7. stimulus-response congruence is important

   • do the verbals and non-verbals align in the client