Discuss the importance of immediacy in the counseling relationship. How will you increase your use of immediacy when counseling clients?
What will be an ideal response?
? Your direct experience of your client, in the here and now of the counseling session, gives you a sense of how she operates in that greater world.
?Your client is not totally different in her relations with others than she is with you.
?Your direct experience of her and her direct experience of you can translate into learning opportunities for your client, if used productively.
Focusing on the material as it relates to you and the relationship between the two of you is called immediacy.
?There are two ways of making a client’s material more immediate:
relate material to the relationship between the two of you
reveal your personal reactions to your client and what she talks about—also known as self-disclosure.
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What will be an ideal response?
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