Counselling Roleplay - Asking only Open Questions

This video was a project between Pete Allen-Worth for his university degree, and Dean Richardson of iCounsellor.co.uk.

Purpose - to demonstrate (and film) counselling skills.

3/3 - This video demonstrates only the technique of asking open questions. Its purpose is to highlight one particular counselling technique.

An open question is one that invites a client to say more about something (whereas a closed question invites only the response "yes" or "no"). Open questions are "who", "what", "Where", "when", "how" and "why".


This video is not intended to demonstrate good counselling skills per se. It is intended to demonstrate one technique in isolation and what effect it can have on the interaction between client and counsellor when the counselling skills are unbalanced. Only using this one technique places quite a burden on the client because the client is invited to work very hard and thinking and responding to the counsellor.

In all videos the part of the client is role played by Liam Devaney, but Dean Richardson is a real counsellor demonstrating real techniques.

Dean Richardson is a individuals psychodynamic and systemic/psychodynamic couples counsellor. He is an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and has has been practising for over ten years. He works in his own private practice in Portsmouth.

http://www.icounsellor.co.uk/

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• iCounsellor
• Counselling
• Role-play
• Open questions
• Dean Richardson

[xxSlightlyAmusedxx]

The question is more important than the answer.

[iCounsellor]

@xxSlightlyAmusedxx In talking therapies, the question would be intended to assist and support the client in considering their own issues. In that respect, the answer is *as* important as the question (notwithstanding that this video deliberately demonstrates an imbalanced practice - see the description).

[don61martin]

is it me or is the audio quality sadly lacking

[AbtinX]

Thank you, I have now assimilated the 5 skillpoints into the open questioning skill

[myles3002]

thanks for publishing all these, they are very helpful to me in my studies

[seekyefirst]

Very helpful, thankyou.