Core Skills: OARS

-Encourage supervisees to explore and talk about their ambivalence (conflicting feelings about why they should and shouldn’t change their behaviors).

-Use to gather information, provide support and convey respect.

-Be supervisee centered in interactions.

-Show empathy by demonstrating an understanding of feelings and experiences that a supervisee has not expressly stated.

-Attempt to balance the use of core skills: open-ended questions, Affirmation, Reflection, and Summarize(O.A.R.S.).

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