Ирина Архипова – English for Psychotherapy and Counselling: Handbook for Practitioners. Английский для психотерапии и консультирования: практическое руководство (страница 17)
VOCABULARY:
Assessment Terminology and Mental Status Examination
A. Find words in the text that match these definitions:
1. The main problem that brings a client to therapy (paragraph 2): _______
2. A relationship based on empathy and respect between therapist and client (paragraph 3): _______
3. The beginning or start of a problem (paragraph 4): _______
4. How often something happens (paragraph 4): _______
5. Information about personal, family, and social background (paragraph 5): _______
6. A client’s subjective description of their emotional state (paragraph 8): _______
7. The observable emotional expression (paragraph 8): _______
8. Awareness of one’s condition (paragraph 8): _______
9. False beliefs not based on reality (paragraph 8): _______
10. Factors that maintain or worsen a problem (paragraph 10): _______
B. Complete the collocations from the text:
1. initial _______
2. intake _______
3. presenting _______
4. mental _______ examination
5. psychosocial _______
6. risk _______
7. _______ rapport
8. _______ confidentiality
9. treatment _______
10. protective _______
11. coping _______
12. therapeutic _______
13. follow-up _______
14. open-ended _______
15. suicidal _______
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C. Word families
Complete the table:
D. Match the MSE terms with descriptions:
1. Affect
2. Thought process
3. Orientation
4. Delusion
5. Hallucination
6. Insight
7. Labile affect
8. Tangentiality
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a) Observable emotional expression
b) False belief firmly held despite evidence
c) Awareness of one’s condition
d) Rapidly changing emotions
e) Awareness of time, place, and person
f) Perceiving something that isn’t there
g) How thoughts are organized and connected
h) Going off-topic when speaking
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Discussion Questions
1. In your country, how is the first psychology session typically structured?
2. What cultural factors might influence how clients describe their presenting problems?
3. How can psychologists establish rapport with clients who are reluctant to share personal information?
4. Do you think it’s appropriate to ask about suicidal thoughts in every initial assessment? Why or why not?
5. What challenges might arise when gathering psychosocial history from clients of different cultural backgrounds?
6. How would you feel about asking personal questions during an intake interview?
7. Which area of the mental status examination do you think is most important? Why?
8. How might the Four Ps formulation help in understanding a client’s difficulties?
GRAMMAR FOCUS:
Past Simple and Past Continuous for Client History / Question Forms
A. Past Simple for Completed Events in Client’s History
We use Past Simple to ask about and describe completed events, experiences, and situations in a client’s past:
Form:
• Affirmative: Subject + verb + -ed (regular) / irregular form
• Negative: Subject + didn’t + main verb