You will be watching a video of The Therapist with Dr. Siri Sat Nam Singh in a session with DeJ Loaf. Describe skills that Dr. Singh is using, why he is using them, and whether or not they are effective. Each member of the diad must describe 10 skills, that is 20 skills for the team. You can use the form that was also provided last week but will be added here if you choose to type it out OR you can record yourselves watching the video like Duff.
Noisey. (2019). Diving Deeper into DeJ Loaf’s Depression | The Therapist [YouTube Video]. In YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgDGSOvfxHs&list=PLdoAu1uCjE-iuV8pZoTbedGw-b6gdIItI&index=2
It includes verbatim dialogue, skill utilized, feeling & reactions, and observations and analysis.
1. You must include verbatim dialogue because you can’t describe a skill out of context so you must include enough dialogue so that it is clear why the therapist would use the skill he is using. The skill utilized is naming the skill. How did he do it? Did he lean forward in his chair? Did he pause, or let when there was silence how did he sit with the silence? In the exemplar, there is a one-word description. That is not enough the skill must be described.
2. Next comes why did he do what he did? That comes from both how the clinician ‘feels’ – the affective response to the interaction as well as what the clinician is thinking.
3. Observations and analysis are what the clinician is thinking at the time – this explains why he is doing what he is doing.
