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1. Which of the following is true about reflection of meaning and interpretation/reframe?
Both help explore in-depth issues below the surface of client conversation.
Reflecting meaning helps clients to clarify their purpose in life.
Interpretation/reframing provide clients with new perspectives to create new ways of thinking, feeling, and
behaving.
Defining the Skills of Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing
2. The major differences between an interpretation/reframe and a reflection of meaning is that in the latter, the listener
remains in the client’s own frame of reference, while in the former it is the listener’s frame of reference.
deals with meaning, while the former deals with feeling.
is using an influencing skill; in the former, an attending skill.
helps the client to come to alternative ways to consider a situation; the former does not.
Discerning the Skills of Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing
3. Linking may be defined as
providing two closely related questions.
an integrative skillful summary.
helping the client see how two areas of information or feelings are tied together.
helping the client discover new meanings in old situations.
Discerning the Skills of Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing
4. Which question would most effectively probe for meaning according to the authors?
Could you give me a specific example?
What values underlie your actions?