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Health Practitioner Case Study

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Armstrong (2006) explains that paraphrasing transpires when the counsellor (or a health practitioner, as in the above case study) reflects back to the client what they have just said, without parroting or changing the meaning of their words. This skill, continues Armstrong (2006), is a feeding back of the essence of what the client has said, in an attempt to gain greater accuracy in discernment. Referring to the aforementioned case study, the Health Practitioner utilised this micro skill following Ally’s opening sentence: Ally: I’m not following my stress management homework …yeah… well, there you go. My Mum is demanding Health practitioner: So you wanted to have your home set up and some extra sessions done, but, well, life intervened.

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