Three-Step Counseling Strategy
This module, adapted from the WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor module developed by the USDA Special Project Grant, teaches family support professionals about an effective strategy for helping a client move towards healthy changes in her life. The Three-Step Counseling Strategy uses open-ended questions, affirmations and education to learn about a client's goals for healthy changes, their readiness to make changes and to determine the information and education that would be most helpful to the client.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Identify three steps in the counseling process
- Demonstrate skill in using each step
- Demonstrate skills in using three-step counseling to determine a client's readiness to make changes
- Identify appropriate times to make referrals or talk to a supervisor
- Author
- Early Impact Virginia
- Supplemental Materials
- Estimated Time to Complete
- 30 minutes
- Skills Addressed
- Relationship-based Family Partnerships Respect and responsiveness Relationship building Planning Parenting education Positive communication Active listening Effective inquiry Effective Home Visits
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