Debriefing for Interview 5

The primary culture-centered skill demonstrated in this interview is “Recovery skill for getting out of trouble.” At many points in this interview the counselor took some risks and made statements that could be misinterpreted by the client. However most of the time the counselor was able to recover from these mistakes and the rapport level with the client continued to grow stronger. The interview covered a lot of ground, perhaps more than would be normally covered in the first five minutes of a first interview. The explicit presence of the pro and anti seemed to pull the interview along at a rapid rate. The counselor seemed to provide insight into the situation and culture, or at least prompt the client to display self-insight. The counselor seemed to accommodate the many differences between himself and the client. Some key points were T15 and T19 where the counselor identified resistance in specific terms. In T24, T26 and T30 the counselor was able to identify the problem from the client’s perspective. In T60 and T70 the counselor identified specific sources of resistance and in T70 the counselor was able to identify specific resistance.

The anticounselor emphasized the power differential, describing the counselor as an authority figure much like the client’s real father.

The procounselor helped protect the counseling process against the anticounselor by providing support and encouragement.

Key words: Old, Father, authority, Anxious, Differences, Trust, Problems, Outside community, Role, Independent, Pressure, Traditional, Criticized, Peers, Moving, Solution.