ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR SKILLS make informed decisions and take positive actions
1. Active Listening - engaging with the client's verbal
towards their goals.
and non-verbal messages
2. Empathy - understanding and sharing the client's
emotions and perspectives. COMMUNITY RESILIENCY MODEL (CRM)
– trains community members to help themselves
3. Nonverbal Communication - conveying valuable and others within their social networks.
information beyond words. which provide insights
into the client's emotions and experiences. Ways in which the CRM supports resilience-
building.
4. Reflection - considering and restating the client's
words. 1. Somatic skills – Focus on body sensations
5. Questioning Techniques - allow counsellors to
2. Interoceptive Awareness – Ability to sense and
gather information
interpret signals from the body.
6. Summarization - involving condensing and
restating client information 3. Resilience Building – equips individuals with
tools to build resilience in the face of diversity.
7. Feedback - the purpose of offering guidance
4. Community Support – Shre with communities.
8. Rapport building - establishing a trusting and
empathetic relationship with clients. 5. Trauma Informed Approach – Recognizing the
9. Goal Setting - providing direction and motivation impact of trauma.
for client growth.
HERE IS HOW CRM HELPS STRENGTHEN
AIMS IN COUNSELLING AN INDIVIDUAL’S RESILIENCE.
1. Building rapport and trust - establish a strong 1. Self-Regulation Skills – Understand and control
relationship between the counselor and the client. their reaction to stress and trauma.
2. Understanding emotions, thoughts and behaviors
2. Interoceptive awareness – understand and
- gain insight into their emotions, thoughts, and
recognize signals from within the body.
behaviors
3. Improving mood and treating mental illness - 3. Resourcing – Seeking and utilizing sources
improving mood and treating mental health
4. Community Support – Emphasize the community
conditions.
as a supportive network of individuals.
4. Enhancing communication and relationships - to
improve communication skills and promote
healthier relationships.
SKILLS IN RISILIENCY MODEL
5. Promoting self-esteem and resilience - help
individuals develop a positive self-image, boost The Community Resiliency Model – Trains
self-esteem, and build resilience. provides support community members not only help themselves but
and guidance in overcoming challenges. to help others.
6. Providing strategies and solutions - assists The resilient Zone – Our mind and body are in a
individuals in developing practical strategies. state of well-being.
1. Tracking – noticing sensation in our body.
2. Resourcing – Using positive things in life to 9. Gender Practice – Doing gender in everyday
bring back to the Nervous system interaction.
2 types of Resources 10. Gender Bias – Socially constructed preference
for one sex/gender over the other.
1. External Resources – people, places, spiritual
guides, activities, hobbies and animals. 11. Gender based stereotypes – constructed over
generations of behaviors.
2. Internal Resources – Values and beliefs that
support and give meaning to life. 12. Gender Gap – Systematic difference or disparity
between women and men.
3. Grounding – direct contact to the ground.
4. Gesturing & Spontaneous Movement –
movement usually of the body or limbs that express
or emphasizes an idea, sentiment or attitude.
5. Ramp down and ramp up – specific action to help
you come back to resilient zone.
6. Shift and Stay – shifting your attention to
pleasant.
GENDER RESPONSIVE COUNSELING
KEY CONCEPTS
1. Gender – array of socially constructed roles and
relationship, personality, traits, attitudes and etc.
2. Sex – Biological characteristics that define
humans as female or male.
3. Feminist Social work – Integration of the values,
skill and knowledge of social work
4. Gender Inequality – distribution of power,
prestige and property are arbitrary assigned on the
basis on the sex not on individual merit.
5. Sexual Orientation – covers sexual desire,
feeling, practices and identification.
6. Gender Identity – Refers to individual feeling of
being man or a woman.
7. Gender Assignment – Gender attribution at birth
8. Gender Role – Appropriate behavioral
expectation associated with gender categories.
