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Interview & Intervention

Getting Started

No matter what field or specialization you plan to pursue or who your clients will be, you need to develop some basic skills when working with clients or colleagues from all realms. In Workshop One, you were introduced to the series of interviews that you will conduct for this course, role plays where you will do your best to practice and demonstrate various skills. For this third role play, you will demonstrate basic intervention skills. While you will not be engaging in therapy per se, the skills you will be learning and practicing still apply when consulting with clients as a life coach, I/O psychologist, and in several other areas.

Upon successful completion of the course material, you will be able to:

• Practice using intervention techniques.

Resources

• Textbook: Evidence-Based Practices for Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Article: The Effectiveness of Strength-Based Executive Coaching in Enhancing Full Range Leadership Development: A Controlled Study
• Video: Positive Psychotherapy: Helping People Thrive
• Video: Strengths-Based CBT: Making a Positive Difference
• File: Using Kaltura CaptureSpace (Word)
• Video: Installing Kaltura CaptureSpace
• Video: Creating and Editing a Video with Kaltura
• Video: Adding a Video in My Media to a Dropbox

Interview & Intervention

Background Information

Psychologists are developing strengths-based therapy approaches that use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles and practices to construct new beliefs and behaviors that promote positive client growth. Changes in CBT over the past three decades (for example, an increased emphasis on behavioral experiments and imagery and a greater appreciation of neuroscience) provide platforms for new therapy methods such as constructive use of imagery, client-generated metaphors, and therapeutic use of smiling and silence. There appears to be a trend toward CBT approaches that more explicitly help people thrive in the face of life challenges.

For this activity, you are a life coach or I/O specialist or psychologist who is working with someone with an issue related to organizations or family systems (your choice).

Create your own scenario: identify the presenting problem or issue, the client, customer or colleague, and your role. Alternatively, you can build on one of the scenarios from Workshop Two or Four.

Focus on problem solving, not diagnosis. Find an appropriate intervention to use. Ensure the intervention is grounded in the strength’s perspective or positive psychology. You will need to conduct some library research.

Interview & Intervention

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. In your textbook, Evidence-Based Practices for Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy, read::
3. Chapter 4, “Christian Devotional Meditation for Anxiety”
4. Chapter 5, “Christian-Accommodative Cognitive Therapy for Depression”
5. Chapter 12, “Marital Couples and Forgiveness Intervention”
6. Read the article “The Effectiveness of Strength-Based Executive Coaching in Enhancing Full Range Leadership Development: A Controlled Study.”

Watch the following segments from the “Positive Psychotherapy: Helping People Thrive” video: https://video.alexanderstreet.com/p/MZNpok6qR

1. This film demonstrates the practical application of positive psychotherapy strategies in individual counseling and clinical supervision. It is comprised of an introduction to positive psychotherapy and its benefits followed by individual counseling vignettes. The vignettes demonstrate positive psychotherapy strategies, including forgiveness, flow, optimism, and gratitude.
2. Use the Transcript tab to navigate to these segments:

Forgiveness: 08:40–14:29 (5:49 minutes)

Flow: 15:30–22:09 (6:39 minutes)

Optimism: 22:10–30:10 (8 minutes)

Gratitude: 45:48–54:20 (8:32 minutes)

4. Watch the following segment from the video “Strengths-Based CBT: Making a Positive Difference.”

Video: https://video.alexanderstreet.com/p/oZnyp8BAX

Interview & Intervention

1. Use the Transcript tab to navigate to the starting point: 4:00 to 14:40 (10:40 minutes)
2. You will be using the course tool Kaltura CaptureSpace to complete this video assignment. Read the Using Kaltura CaptureSpace (Word) document for more information on installation, recording, and submitting a video to Dropbox. You can also watch the following:
3. “Installing Kaltura CaptureSpace ”
4. “Creating and Editing a Video with Kaltura”
5. “Adding a Video in My Media to a Dropbox”
6. An essential component of this engagement activity is creating a script of your planned conversation with the client. Your script should be a text document that represents the words you plan to say during your practice interview.
7. By creating a script, you will have a plan for your conversation and an approximate time frame for your video because you can plan on about 1 minute per double-spaced page. Double-spacing your text allows for ease of reading while you are recording the video.
8. After you have your script finalized, you are ready to record your video! You are also required to submit your script in order to receive full credit for this assignment.
9. Create a five- to seven-minute video where you practice using intervention techniques. For this activity, you are a life coach or I/O specialist/psychologist who is working with someone with an issue related to organizations or family systems (your choice). Alternatively, you can build on one of the scenarios from Workshop Two or Four.

Interview & Intervention

1. Identify the presenting problem or issue, the client, customer or colleague and your role in your recording. Ensure you also briefly discuss the intervention you will be applying.
2. Focus on problem solving, not diagnosis. Find an appropriate strengths-based or positive psychology intervention to use.
3. During the interview recording, demonstrate your knowledge of and expertise in (as much as possible) the application of the intervention to help alleviate or reduce a challenge or problem that you and the client focus on.
4. Ensure that you are visible in the video; it is optional that your client be seen, because some may not want to be visible. Practice and replay your practice recording to ensure that both you and your client can be heard and that you (at a minimum) can be seen. Then, complete your role-play recording.
5. When you have completed your role-play recording to your satisfaction, upload your video and the script you prepared by clicking on the Activities button and the instructions provided. APA.