36. Understanding the client's
feelings
37. Putting client's feelings
into words
38. Connecting feelings to
Treatment work
39. Identifying affective obstacles
40. Determining differential Treatment needs
41. Ordering and integrating
information
42. Working with varying degrees of
resistance
43. Creating innovative solutions to
client's needs
44. Effectively terminating
therapeutic relationships
45. Displaying belief in the
potential of the work
46. Working with transference and
counter-transference
47. Listening to others with
understanding and purpose
48. Using the client's personal and
cultural perspectives
49. Using oneself in professional
helping relationship
50. Serving as a role model in a
professional relationship
51. Interpreting complex psychosocial
phenomena
52. Assessing one's own performance
and feelings
53. Discussing sensitive subjects in
a supportive manner
54. Helping clients develop the
ability to help themselves
55. Therapeutically sharing personal
thoughts/feelings
56. Separating personal from professional
issues
57. Adhering to a professional code
of ethics
58. Persisting on behalf of the
client despite frustration
59. Perceiving the variables as
interacting in complex systems
60. Identifying the information
necessary to solve a problem
61. Dealing with conflict situations
or contentious personalities
62. Mediating and negotiating between
conflicted parties
63. Engaging the client in defining
problem and desired outcomes
64. Observing and interpreting verbal
and nonverbal behavior
65. Acting professionally on his or
her own judgment
66. Obtaining and using
supervision/consultation as needed
67. Helping client to stop being a
severe risk to self or others
68. Recognizing and responding to
complex dysfunctions of clients
69. Responding supportively in
emotionally-laden or crisis situations
70. Providing treatment involving
significant growth/change