What Is Summarizing in Counseling

In a summarization, the counselor combines two or more of the client’s thoughts, feelings or behaviors into a general theme. Summarization is usually used as a skill during choice points of a counseling interview in which the counselor wants to draw connections between two or more topics.

Why is Summarising used in Counselling?

Encouragers, paraphrases and summaries are basic to helping a client feel understood. … Paraphrasing and summarising are more active ways of communicating to the client that they have been listened to. Summarising is particularly useful to help clients organise their thinking.

How do you summarize a session?

  1. Introduction: One to two sentences that explain: What student the brought to the session: …
  2. Conclusion: One to two sentence action plan, or a statement about where the work ended. …
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