Playing a hunch, Reframing

_SLIDE_1_ Playing a hunch, Reframing _SLIDE_2_ PLAYING A HUNCH requires that a level of trust has been established between the client(s) and the counselor, and that the counselor trusts his/her intuitive sense of “ what might be going on”. PLAYING A HUNCH is used to lead to a deeper understanding of client(s) issues, feelings, or situation, and the meaning that the client(s) gives to them. _SLIDE_3_ A hunch does not have to be accurate; a hunch is what the counselor feels, and might not be what the client(s) feels. The importance of a hunch is to give the client(s) an opportunity to react to some new information. The intent is to challenge the client(s). The focus can be experience, feeling, client(s) thought and/ or behavior, and have an immediacy focus. Hunches can be played with tentativeness because they are interpretations and often confrontational. _SLIDE_4_ REFRAMING gives the client(s) another view on experience, feelings, thought, behavior, or perspective ; the more …
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