1. CHAPTER 7: Assessing Client Preferences & Adjusting Counselling Style
1.1. Responsive Relationships
1.1.1. Client Preferences
1.1.1.1. Activities, approaches, & therapist preferences
1.1.1.2. Institutional ways of being
1.1.2. Counsellor Style
1.1.2.1. Directive vs. Non-Directive
1.1.2.2. High context, low context communication
1.1.2.3. Including significant others or family system
1.1.3. Practice-Based Evidence
1.1.3.1. Client feedback (verbal and non-verbal)
1.2. Counselling Processes
1.2.1. Integrating Domain of Experience
1.2.2. Avoiding Pre-Mature Foreclosure
1.3. Microskills & Techniques
1.3.1. Techniques
1.3.1.1. Linking domains of experience
1.3.1.2. Making hypothesis transparent
1.3.2. Assessment Criteria
1.3.2.1. Thorough descriptions
1.3.2.2. Client/Family-Centered Responses
1.4. Reflection in/on Practice
1.4.1. Enhancing cultural intelligence
1.4.2. Reflecting on own narratives, worldviews, and perspectives
1.4.3. Engaging/Exploring client stories
1.4.4. Partner Activities
2. CHAPTER FIVE: Co-Constructing Shared Understanding - Affect & Embodiment
2.1. Responsive Relationships
2.1.1. Growth-Fostering Relationships
2.1.1.1. Connection-Disconnection
2.1.1.2. Attachment
2.1.1.2.1. Attachment & Relationship Building
2.1.1.2.2. Identity Fractures Related to Colonization
2.1.1.3. Empathy
2.1.1.3.1. Mutual Empathy
2.1.1.3.2. Mutual Cultural Empathy
2.1.1.4. Presence
2.2. Counselling Process
2.2.1. Conceptualizing Client Lived Experiences
2.2.1.1. Exploring Client Challenges
2.2.1.2. Relating it to Affect & Embodiment
2.3. Microskills & Techniques
2.3.1. Microskills
2.3.1.1. Reflecting Feelings
2.3.1.2. Checking Perceptions
2.3.1.3. Inviting Embodiment
2.3.1.4. Offering Immediacy
2.3.2. Techniques
2.3.2.1. Practicing Grounding
2.3.3. Assessment Criteria
2.3.3.1. Clear & Concise Microskills
2.4. Reflective Practice
2.4.1. Enhancing Reflective Functioning
2.4.2. Enlisting Your own Story
2.4.3. Engaging with Client Stories
3. Responsive Counselling Relationships
4. CHAPTER 8: Foregrounding Client Identities, Values & Worldviews and Co-Constructing Preferred Futures
4.1. Repsonsive Relationships
4.1.1. Foregrounding Client Values & Worldview
4.1.1.1. Ethincity & Indigeneity
4.1.1.2. Religion & Spirituality
4.1.2. Views of Health & Healing
4.1.2.1. Systems of Knowledge/Meaning
4.1.2.2. Anti-Pathologizing Lens
4.2. Counselling Processes
4.2.1. Engaging in Cultural Inquiry
4.2.1.1. Exploring Cultural Identities, Values, and Worldviews
4.2.1.2. Assessing Salience of Culture
4.2.2. Conceptualizing Client Lived Experience
4.2.2.1. Co-Constructing Cultural Hypothesis
4.2.2.2. Envisioning Preferred Futures
4.3. Microskills & Techniques
4.3.1. Techniques
4.3.1.1. Exploring Personal and Cultural Meanings
4.3.1.2. Highlighting Exceptions
4.3.1.3. Envisioning Preferred Futures
4.3.2. Assessment Criteria
4.3.2.1. Cultural Responsivity
4.3.2.2. Variety of Microskills
4.4. Reflection in/on Practice
4.4.1. Debriefing, Healing, and Repairing Relational Disruptions
4.4.2. Self-reflection on own Narrative and Experiences
4.4.3. Engaging in Client Stories and Narratives
4.4.4. Partner Activities
5. CHAPTER SIX: Co-Constructing Shared Understanding - Thoughts & Beliefs
5.1. Responsive Relationships
5.1.1. Sociocultural Construction of Meaning
5.1.1.1. Culture & Social Isolation
5.1.1.2. Unpacking/Exploring Identity Narratives
5.2. Counselling Processes
5.2.1. Conceptualizing Client-Lived Expeiriences
5.2.1.1. Understanding client thoughts & beliefs
5.2.2. Collaboration in Meaning-Making
5.2.2.1. Fostering Constructive Collaboration
5.2.2.2. Co-Constructing Meaning
5.2.2.3. Metaphor Usage
5.3. Microskills & Techniques
5.3.1. Microskills
5.3.1.1. Reflecting Meaning
5.3.1.2. Exploring Inconsistencies
5.3.1.3. Summarizing
5.3.2. Techniques
5.3.2.1. Co-Creating Language
5.3.3. Assessment
5.3.3.1. Experience-Near
5.4. Reflection in/on Practice
5.4.1. Reflection on Language and Intent behind Words
5.4.2. Reflect on own lived experiences and perspective
5.4.3. Engage with client stories
5.4.4. Partner Activities
6. Counselling Process
6.1. Exploring client narratives and lived experiences
6.1.1. Bio/Psycho/Social/Emotional Spiritual aspects
6.1.2. Authenticity, intentional focus, and open curiousity
6.1.3. Individual experiences acknowledged as well as the professional's
6.2. Individualized and Systems-based dialogue
6.2.1. Stength-based, trauma-informed, and anti-pathologizing
7. Intentional/Organic Skills and Technques
7.1. Microskills
7.1.1. Normalizations, affirmations, and validations
7.2. Techniques
7.2.1. Acknowledging existing power dynamics and working to navigate them in a healthy manner
7.3. Assessment
7.3.1. Strength-based and relational