500 - 6 CE HOURS / SELF STUDY: PERSON-CENTERED PSYCHOTHERAPY SKILLS
Welcome to Person-Centered Therapy in Spanish Self-Study 6 CE Hours
This Module is suitable for Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, Interns and Graduate Students with Intermediate to Advanced Spanish.
Participants will learn the four stages essential to the practice of Person-Centered Therapy to start using with Spanish speaking clients. Reflecting Content, Paraphrasing, Reflecting Feeling, Reflecting Meaning.
Gain confidence and efficiency with basic counseling and therapy skills which are culturally congruent for Spanish speaking clients.
Participants receive:
- Four Videos
- Four Workbooks for reading comprehension and repetition practice
- Four Tests
- Four Course evaluation forms
- Four Verification of Hours Forms
- Certificate of Completion
- Reflecting Content
Video time: 19:54 plus 39 page workbook
In this module you will practice therapist statements to Reflect 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
- Paraphrasing
Video time: 24:06 plus 37 page workbook
Practice the art of Paraphrasing the client's narrative.
- 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 Feeling
Video time: 28:27 plus 32 page workbook
Practice observing and reflecting the affective states exhibited or mentioned by the client.
- 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
Reflecting Meaning
Video time: 24:47 plus 64 page workbook
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 in the past tenses
