Linda Peoples
Southern Adventist University, USA
Title: Counseling skills for the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner
Biography
Biography: Linda Peoples
Abstract
Counseling skills for the mental health client are specific and varied. Knowing how to deliver therapeutic speak to your clients enhances and encourages mental wellness. A review of skills such as active listening, attending, empathetic confrontation, focusing, paraphrasing and many others all work towards intentional interviewing and counseling. Facilitating client wellness in a multi-cultural society can be challenging. Intentionality in your counseling can lead to better outcomes and thorough identification of client distress. Foundationally supported counseling helps the practitioner to feel competent and build a therapeutic relationship. Mastering the skills based on neuroscience and how the brain experiences emotion assists the practitioner to find the client’s way to resolution. Finally, how the practitioner’s natural style can be incorporated into each counselling skill will be explored.