Ashley is counseling her best friend who says she is depressed. Ashley asks her friend if she feels depressed just at school or if she feels this way in other situations. Ashley is using which basic counseling skill?

a. giving advice
b. clarifying the problem
c. imposing her view of reality on the problem
d. keeping the conversation going with absolutely no silence


ANSWER: b

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