Discuss the range of responses you can use while counseling. What type of responses are most effective?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

?The ways we respond to our clients’ statements can be characterized along a continuum from the simplest response styles to the more complex.

a. The simplest way to reflect what you’ve heard is to restate it. You simply say back, perhaps in somewhat altered fashion, exactly what’s just been said. This is not a particularly effective way to communicate your understanding, however. Responding intelligently to the content of what your client has said requires more than a simple restatement, or parroting, of what your client has said.
b. A better way to demonstrate your understanding of the essence of what your client has said is called “reflection of content,” or “paraphrasing.” This reflection, when done really well, captures and reflects not only the obvious spoken material but also some of what is implied that lies under the surface.
c. Reflections that include responding to the emotional content, called responding with “reflection of content and feeling,” are even better. These ways of responding are certainly a cut above simple restatement.
d. One other kind of reflection, called interpretation, which is a truly sophisticated reflection of content. It draws together different aspects or themes of your client’s thoughts and may also involve some of your own perspective. Interpretation is the mainstay of pyschoanalytic work