What Was The Client's Response To Your Interventions

1. What were your personal goals for this session? Every week I look forward to our session and the issues that will be presented on that day. My personal goals for this session were to continue listening to the client and being able to recognize her important concerns.

2. What issues did the client present? The client presented our session this week, with a concern of her mother-in-law and her former church. The client mother- in- law, is the overseer of the church; therefore she needed a musician to play for the church during an event. The mother- in-law request for an outside musician was declined by members of the church.

3. What skills did you use in this session? During this session, the skills that I utilized were listening skills, observing verbal and nonverbal communication and paraphrasing. Being an attentive listener is very important, I was trying to perceive important information without missing any. I observed the client body language and the tone in her voice. Also, using the paraphrasing skills allowed clarity to see if I was following the client story accurately.

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What was the client’s response to your interventions? Using the paraphrasing technique the client did correct me. Being corrected alerted me that I got lost somewhere in the client story. Also, in our previous session the client was given some homework. The homework consisted of her and her husband driving around and writing down the churches they wanted to visit. During our session, I was ecstatic to hear that she and her husband will be discussing which church they would like to visit based on the homework that was