{"id":5302,"date":"2011-05-30T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2011-05-30T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:12:34","slug":"showing-up-on-the-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/showing-up-on-the-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing Up On The Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello [waving a hand in greeting].\u00a0 Welcome back!\u00a0 In my last post I said I would be talking about how to convey \u201cpresence\u201d throughout an online counselling session.\u00a0 So \u2013 let\u2019s see [thinking out loud]. I\u2019ll tell you about three important techniques I have learned and show you some examples.\u00a0 I invite you to make yourself comfortable. Ready?\u00a0 Let\u2019s get to work [rolling up my sleeves].<\/p>\n

When I talk about online counselling a common response is \u201cnon-verbals are such a big part of our communication. How do you deal with that? Isn\u2019t it easy to misunderstand each other?\u201d\u00a0 One counsellor said that she thought online counselling would be \u201ccold and clinical\u201d, with no way to show warmth, empathy or humanness.<\/p>\n

I understand the concerns.\u00a0 Text-only can be challenging. However, there are ways to address the lack of tone of voice and non-verbals in text-based counselling work.[1]<\/a> Lawrence Murphy and Dan Mitchell of Therapy Online have developed techniques such as Emotional Bracketing, Descriptive Immediacy and Descriptive Imagery (amongst others).<\/p>\n

The point in using techniques such as these is to: bring the client into the room with you, create an immediacy of experience, assist them to understand or \u2018see\u2019 the non-verbals (i.e. thoughts, feelings, tone of voice), minimize the chance they will misinterpret what is said, and give them an opportunity to ensure they have been \u2018heard\u2019 correctly.\u00a0 Most importantly, these techniques are aimed at deepening the therapeutic connection and engendering change.<\/p>\n

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[thinking that a brief description and examples will be useful here]<\/p>\n

Emotional Bracketing – employs the use of square brackets wherein we write about inner non-observable thoughts and feelings.<\/p>\n

Examples:<\/p>\n

[feeling impressed with how you handled this situation]<\/p>\n

[wondering if you have felt like this for a while now]<\/p>\n

[thinking about all that we have talked about over the past months]<\/p>\n

[hmmm \u2013 wondering about ways to approach this and feeling curious about a number of possible explanations]<\/p>\n

What a big step—you have come a long way from when we first met and were talking about these issues [feeling proud of you].<\/p>\n

Descriptive Immediacy – provides the client with information about the counsellor’s observable, non-verbal behaviour toward the client. When I am writing these I try and visualize my client actually being in the room with me and how I would be responding to them.<\/p>\n

Examples:<\/p>\n

[sitting up straighter]<\/p>\n

Whew! [wiping hand across my brow]<\/p>\n

[leaning forward in my chair and wanting to convey that I hear the pain in your words]<\/p>\n

Descriptive Imagery –\u00a0 The use of descriptive language to help the client create a mental picture that is relevant to the therapeutic environment.\u00a0 I tend to use this technique most in \u2018setting the scene\u2019 and starting a session.<\/p>\n

Example:<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom my office you can see a garden and I have the window open to catch the soft spring breeze.\u00a0 I have a couple of comfortable chairs for us to sit in.\u201d<\/p>\n

In my next post I will demonstrate how to use these techniques in a client session [wanting you to have a context for how to use these techniques].<\/p>\n

The opinions expressed in this blogpost are personal.<\/p>\n

Dawn Schell, MA, CCC is an affiliate counsellor with Therapy Online<\/p>\n

http:\/\/therapyonline.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Murphy, L.J, & Mitchell, D.L. (2009) Overcoming the absence of tone and non-verbal elements of communication in text-based cybercounselling. In J.G. McDaniel (Ed) Advances in Information Technology and Communication in Health, Vol. 143<\/em>, 215-219. IOS Press BV, Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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