Welcome to Module 500 - Person-Centered Therapy in Spanish

INTRODUCTION

Master essential and practical Person-Centered Therapy techniques to start using right away in your practice. Gain confidence and efficiency with basic counseling and therapy skills which are culturally congruent for Spanish speaking clients.

This program is appropriate for Mental Health Professionals, Interns and Trainees with intermediate to advanced Spanish.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Once you have purchased the product, you will receive an invitation in your email to become a member of the website spanishformentalhealth.com.
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When you accept the invitation, log in, and enter your member area, you will be able to access the pages that contain the materials for this module. 

OBJECTIVES

Reflecting Content
Video time: 19:54 plus 39 page workbook
In this module you will practice Reflecting the Content of the client narrative.

  • Rationale for Reflecting Content as a culturally congruent therapeutic technique
  • Presentation of Common Presenting Problems
  • Listening Comprehension: Therapist-Client Dialogue and quiz
  • Key Vocabulary associated with therapist-client dialogue
  • Sentence template to form Reflecting Content statements: tu versus usted form
  • Open-ended prompts
  • Reflecting Statements construction practice
  • Troubleshooting: Re-direct and clarify


Reflecting Feeling
Video time: 28:27 plus 32 page workbook
  • Using Reflecting Feeling as a psychotherapeutic technique
  • Implement language to provide accurate and thoughtful reflections
  • Therapist Client Dialogue: Vignette - problematic home visit
  • Numerous adjectives to Reflect Feeling in masculine, feminine and neuter forms
  • Sentence template to Reflect Feeling
  • Verb constructions to form Reflect Feeling statements using parecer, estar, sentirse
  • Listening Comprehension and quiz
  • Review of vocabulary in the client-therapist Vignette
  • Vocabulary used in therapist-client dialogue
Paraphrasing

Video time: 24:06 plus 37 page workbook

  • Rationale for Paraphrasing as a therapeutic technique
  • Two-step guide for using psychotherapist Prompts and Paraphrases
  • Related Verb constructions and Vocabulary
  • Sentence templates to form therapist Paraphrasing statements: tu versus usted
  • Comprehension:Therapist-Client Dialogue and quiz
  • Troubleshooting: How to handle client resistance
  • Sentence templates: How to avoid asking too many questions
  • Comprehension: Verb Drill: Direct and Indirect Objects and Pronouns
  • Verbs commonly used in a client narrative

Reflecting Meaning
Video time: 24:47 plus 64 page workbook
In this module you will practice dialogues in which the therapist guides the client to explore meanings associated with the client narrative.
  • Learn, hear and repeat therapist statements which reflect meaning according to the client's narrative.
  • Sentence templates to practice various Reflecting Meaning statements.
  • Prepare for common Presenting Problems
  • Related vocabulary to Presenting Problems
  • Verb constructions to enable Reflecting Meaning statements
  • Listening comprehension: therapist-client dialogue, quiz and breakdown
  • Using reframing statements to provide a new perspective, frame of reference or way of thinking about issues
  • Translation and fill-in-the-blank exercises
  • Comprehension exercise: direct objects
  • Verb Drill: Uses of the Verb Decir in psychotherapy
  • Motivational prompts
  • Vocabulary from Therapist-Client dialogue
  • Translation Exercises for Reflecting Meaning Therapist statements
  • Comprehension: Direct Objects in the past tenses