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3. Therapeutic Relationships
Therapeutic relationships help your clients become centered in four domains of psychological functioning. This can be visualized using The Domain Compass:
· In the East, there’s the domain of emotions, consisting of feeling and moods.
· In the South, there’s the domain of cognitions, consisting of thoughts and beliefs.
· In the West, there’s the domain of behaviors, consisting of both all external actions and the internal actions of the physical body.
· In the North, there’s the domain of executive skills and self-regulation.
1. Three relationship qualities to strive for within the domain of emotions.
· Focus on increasing clients’ awareness of their own emotions.
o The Check-In technique helps clients express their feelings and moods in words or in various kinds of rating scales.
· Help sooth emotions that become too powerful or chaotic.
o The Low and Slow approach helps to cool down an overheating nervous system.
o The Organized Activities approach helps to structure a chaotic nervous system.
· Build up clients’ fragile and/or low self-esteem.
o Praise works through high frequency repetition to help kids see their own strengths and worth.
o Attention helps kids feel their own worth. Often times, older kids in residential treatment still need the intense level of attention that people appear to intuitively give to pre-schoolers.
2. Two relationship qualities that help kids within the domain of cognitions.
· Increase external structures to reduce cognitive chaos.
· Break sequences down into smaller chunks.
3. Three relationship qualities that help kids become behaviorally and physiologically centered.
· Attend to kids’ basic physiological needs (water, food, sleep, exercise, rest).
· Become an active and skilled listener.
· Co-regulate with kids through joining them in play.
4. One key relationship quality that helps kids in the domain of executive skills.
· Help each kid make and keep friends.
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By Russ Bloch, MSW, MBATherapeutic relationships help your clients become centered in four domains of psychological functioning. This can be visualized using The Domain Compass:
· In the East, there’s the domain of emotions, consisting of feeling and moods.
· In the South, there’s the domain of cognitions, consisting of thoughts and beliefs.
· In the West, there’s the domain of behaviors, consisting of both all external actions and the internal actions of the physical body.
· In the North, there’s the domain of executive skills and self-regulation.
1. Three relationship qualities to strive for within the domain of emotions.
· Focus on increasing clients’ awareness of their own emotions.
o The Check-In technique helps clients express their feelings and moods in words or in various kinds of rating scales.
· Help sooth emotions that become too powerful or chaotic.
o The Low and Slow approach helps to cool down an overheating nervous system.
o The Organized Activities approach helps to structure a chaotic nervous system.
· Build up clients’ fragile and/or low self-esteem.
o Praise works through high frequency repetition to help kids see their own strengths and worth.
o Attention helps kids feel their own worth. Often times, older kids in residential treatment still need the intense level of attention that people appear to intuitively give to pre-schoolers.
2. Two relationship qualities that help kids within the domain of cognitions.
· Increase external structures to reduce cognitive chaos.
· Break sequences down into smaller chunks.
3. Three relationship qualities that help kids become behaviorally and physiologically centered.
· Attend to kids’ basic physiological needs (water, food, sleep, exercise, rest).
· Become an active and skilled listener.
· Co-regulate with kids through joining them in play.
4. One key relationship quality that helps kids in the domain of executive skills.
· Help each kid make and keep friends.