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Please read the following client session carefully and answer each question thoroughly on this document. You may put the answer to each question under the number you are addressing. Please pay close attention to each question and make sure you are providing the appropriate references.
Makayla is a 16-year old African-American client who recently discovered she is pregnant. Makayla and her boyfriend, Darrell, have been dating for about one year. Prior to meeting Darrell, Makayla was very involved in her local church. She sang in the church choir and was an active member of the youth ministry. Makayla had made a commitment so remain a virgin until she was married. She presents for counseling with her mother. As you speak to Makayla, she tells you that her mother does not know about the pregnancy. Makayla states that “until I decide what to do, I don’t want her to know. If I have an abortion, she never has to know about any of this.” Makayla goes on to share that she is fearful that her mother will be disappointed in her and that their close relationship will be changed forever. She also feels immense shame when she goes to church each week. She feels like the ‘ideal, wholesome person’ that the other parishioner’s see is fake. Makayla is struggling to not only accept her pregnancy but to accept the ‘non-ideal’ person she has become.
Now, based on your reading this week and the client session above, answer the following prompts:
1. Construct two reflection of meaning statements that elicit meaning (see slide 8).
2. Construct two reflection of meaning statement that use value words (see slide 12).
3. Select one of the theories identified on slides 17 and 18 of the power point and briefly discuss interpretation/ reframing from that theories perspective. How would you view Makayla’s case from this theoretical perspective?
In order to adequately complete this discussion assignment, you must answer all three prompts thoroughly and MUST cite one peer-reviewed journal article when responding to prompt #3.
Intentional Interviewing and Counseling:
Facilitating Client Development in a
Multicultural Society
9th Edition
Allen E. Ivey
Mary Bradford Ivey
Carlos P. Zalaquett
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Chapter 11
Reflection of Meaning
and Interpretation/Reframe:
Helping Clients Restory Their Lives
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Chapter Goals and Competency Objectives (slide 1 of 2)
Awareness and Knowledge
Understand the skills of reflection of meaning and interpretation/reframing.
Recognize their similarities and differences.
Explore the rationale and some philosophical background of the centrality of these two skills.
Become aware of the critical work of Viktor Frankl, philosopher and practical psychiatrist, who developed logotherapy to change the direction of clients’ lives.
Explore discernment, a practical system to aid clients in deciding life direction.
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Chapter Goals and Competency Objectives (slide 2 of 2)
Skills and Action
Assist clients, through reflection of meaning, to explore their deeper meanings and values and to discern their goals and life purpose or mission.
Help clients, through interpretation/reframing, to find alternative ways of thinking that facilitate personal development.
Evaluate clients’ progress and change as you use these skills.
Employ the action philosophy and practice of logotherapy.
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Introduction: The Skills of Reflecting Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing (slide 1 of 2)
Reflection of Meaning: Meanings are close to core experiencing. Encourage clients to explore their own meanings and values in more depth, from their own perspective, and also the perspectives of others. Questions eliciting meaning are often a vital first step. A reflection of meaning looks very much like a paraphrase, but focuses beyond what the client says. Appearing often are the words meaning, values, vision, and goals. Anticipated Result: The client discusses stories, issues, and concerns in more depth with a special emphasis on deeper meanings, values, and understandings. Clients may be enabled to discern their life goals and vision for the future.
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Introduction: The Skills of Reflecting Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing (slide 2 of 2)
Interpretation/Reframing: Provide the client with a new meaning or perspective, frame of reference, or way of thinking about issues. Interpretations/reframes may come from your observations; they may be based on varying theoretical orientations to the helping field; or they may link critical ideas together. Anticipated Result: The client may find another perspective or meaning of a story, issue, or problem. The new perspective could have been generated by a theory used by the interviewer, from linking ideas or information, or by simply looking at the situation afresh.
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Eliciting and Reflection of Meaning
The eliciting and reflection of meaning is both a skill and a strategy.
As a skill, elicit meaning:
“What does ____ mean to you, your past, or future life?”
As strategy, you bring out client stories from the past, in the present, or in anticipation of the future.
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Reflection of Meaning and Charlis
Charlis, a workaholic 45-year-old middle manager, has a heart attack. After several days of intensive care, she is moved to the floor where you, as the hospital social worker, work with the heart attack aftercare team. Charlis is motivated; she is following physician directives and progressing as rapidly as possible. She listens carefully to diet and exercise suggestions and seems the ideal patient with an excellent prognosis. However, she wants to return to her high-pressure job and continue moving up through the company; you observe some fear and puzzlement about what’s happened to her and where she might want to go next.
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Reflection of Meaning
Eliciting meaning often precedes reflection.
The key words meaning, sense, deeper understanding, purpose, vision, etc. will be explicitly or implicitly present.
Provides an opening for the client to explore issues in a way that leads to a deeper awareness of the possibilities of life.
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Comparing Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing
Both are designed to help clients look deeper and examine themselves from a new perspective.
Reflection of meaning involves client direction. The client provides the new perspective.
Interpretation/reframe implies interviewer direction, and it offers a new way of being as suggested by the counselor.
Both end up in the same place.
We need to give clients power and control of sessions whenever possible.
If the client does not respond to reflective strategies, move to active reframing or a theoretical interpretation.
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Eliciting Client Meaning
Questions that may orient toward meaning:
“When in your life did you have existential or meaning questions? How have you resolved these issues thus far?”
“What significant life events have shaped your beliefs about life?”
“What are your earliest childhood memories as you first identified your ethnic/cultural background? Your spirituality?”
“What are your earliest memories of church, synagogue, mosque, a higher power, or discovering your parents’ vital life values?”
“Where are you now in your life journey? Your spiritual journey?”
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Reflecting Client Meanings
Reflect Meaning
Say back to clients their exact key meaning and value words.
Reflect their own unique meaning, not yours.
Occasionally you may supply the needed meaning word yourself (e.g., “You value …”)
Keywords: meaning, value, reasons, intent, cause, etc.
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Observe: The Skills of Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing (slide 1 of 2)
Microskill of interpretation/reframing
Listen to the client story, issue, or problem.
Learn how the client makes sense, thinks about, or interprets the story or issue.
Provide an alternative meaning or interpretation of the narrative.
Interpretation/reframes may…
Come from therapist’s observations
Be based on theoretical orientations
Linking ideas discussed earlier
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Observe: The Skills of Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing (slide 2 of 2)
Anticipated Result
Client may find another perspective.
Client may find a new meaning attached to her or his story, issue, or problem.
Intervention can be evaluated using Client Change Scale (CCS).
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Client Change Scale (CCS)
The Creation of the New
Denial
Partial Examination
Full Examination But No Change
Decides to Live With Incongruity
Develops new ways of thinking and behaving.
Ignores interpretation.
Explores interpretation/reframe.
Interchangeable response and acceptance of the interpretation.
Decides to Change From Incongruity
Creation of something new.
5
4
3
2
1
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Example Interview: Travis Explores the Meaning of a Recent Divorce
Travis is reflecting on his recent divorce. When relationships end, the thoughts, feelings, and underlying meaning of the other person and their time together often remain an unsolved mystery.
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Theories of Counseling and Interpretation/Reframing (slide 1 of 2)
Interpretation From Different Counseling Theories
Decisional Theory: helps clients find new ways of thinking about their decisions.
Person-Centered: helps clients build on their strengths and find deeper purpose.
Brief Counseling: helps clients find quick ways to reach central goals.
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Theories of Counseling and Interpretation/Reframing (slide 2 of 2)
Interpretation From Different Counseling Theories
Cognitive-Behavioral Theory: helps clients link thinking and behavior.
Psychodynamic Theory: helps the client link ideas about how the past influences the present.
Multicultural Counseling and Therapy (MCT): helps clients reframe their concerns in relation to their multicultural background.
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Frankl’s Logotherapy: Making Meaning Under Extreme Stress
Frankl, a survivor of the German concentration camp, Auschwitz, could not change his life situation, but he was able draw on important strengths of his Jewish tradition to change the meaning he made of it.
The Jewish tradition of serving others facilitated his survival. Frankl counseled his entire barracks, helping them reframe their terrors and difficulties, pointing out that they were developing strengths for the future.
If your clients can find a meaningful vision and life direction, they often will bear many difficult things as they seek ways to resolve their issues and continue life.
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Discernment
Identifying Life Mission and Goals
Discernment: to separate, to determine, to sort out, or when the spirit is at work in a situation.
Determining the origin of our interior and exterior experiences (Farnham, Gill, McLean, & Ward, 1991).
Describes therapists’ work with clients at deeper levels of meaning.
Process where clients focus on future vision.
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SUMMARY: Facilitating Clients in Finding Their
Meaning Core and Developing (slide 1 of 3)
Eliciting and reflecting meaning is a complex skill that requires you to enter the sense-making system of the client.
Full exploration of life meaning requires a self-directed, verbal client who is willing to talk.
The skill complex is most often associated with an abstract, formal-operational interviewing style.
With clients who are more concrete, you will still find that eliciting and reflecting meaning is useful.
The approach to meaning taken by the cognitive-behavioral therapists is more useful with these clients.
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SUMMARY: Facilitating Clients in Finding Their
Meaning Core and Developing (slide 2 of 3)
Highly verbal or resistant clients may intellectualize and take no action.
Meanings are organizing constructs that are at the core of our being. Mastering the art of understanding meaning will take more time than other skills, but you will find that completing exercises with reflection of meaning results in a better understanding of your client.
Before interpretation/reframing, be sure you have heard the client’s story or concerns. Then draw from personal experience or a theoretical perspective to provide the client a new way of thinking and talking about issues.
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SUMMARY: Facilitating Clients in Finding Their
Meaning Core and Developing (slide 3 of 3)
Focusing on multicultural counseling and therapy is the most certain way of bringing multicultural issues into the interview.
The effectiveness of an interpretation/reframe can be measured on the Client Change Scale.
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Action: Key Points and Practice of Applying Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing Skills in the Real World
Eliciting Meaning
Reflecting Meaning
Interpretation/Reframe
Theoretical Interpretations
Reframes
Discernment
Multicultural and Family Issues and Stories
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