Topic: counseling skills

…progress is the measuring stick. You want your patient to know the joy of a structured, purposeful life.

We don’t need to ‘cure’ social anxiety, only to increase the individual’s level of control over his or her emotions…

Project Match has long been held up as demonstrating the efficacy of three very different approaches.

Stats are something we impose on them when there’s already another client waiting in the corridor and the charting still isn’t done.

The challenge is to develop that relationship quickly enough to engage the client and create an environment that promotes success.

From the beginning, it was designed to be a program for living… a grass-roots approach based not on scientific research or professional practice but on the direct experience of recovering persons.

If we inadvertently activate the ‘fight-flight’ response, communication will come to a halt.

What’s the difference? Maybe it’s in how confrontation is used.

Not so much ‘I share your pain’ as ‘I want to show you I understand what you mean.’

Others enter counseling with no intention of changing at all. Their goal is simply to placate some authority.