User:Antwv/Microskills

Microskills are basic units of communication that help foster a positive working relationship between a counselor and a client. Microskills are specific skills that can be learned, developed, and perfected and used in almost any Theoretical approach to counseling and interviewing. The microskills approach to counseling and interviewing are even considered by some to be an independent Theoretical model to counseling.

Ivey and Ivey state that, "Listening is the foundation of counseling and interviewing. In the session, we seek to enable clients to tell their stories." This is what the microskills enables us to do, listen to clients tell their stories.

Allen Ivey is one of the key developers of the microcounseling skills approach to counseling and also of the micro skills approach to teaching counselors in training.

Types of Microskills include: - Listening - Questioning - Silence - Non-verbal behavior