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Client Conceptualization

Welcome to the client conceptualization portion of the site. Client conceptualization is foundational to an effective counseling practice, as conceptualization increases counselors' empathy toward clients, which enables the counselor to make treatment decisions that are theoretically grounded and culturally appropriate. Conceptualizing clients also provides counselors with an opportunity to explore the ways in which the counselor's personal values, biases, beliefs, and world-view are influencing the counseling process.

On this page you will find several pieces that form an activity that is designed to help counselors practice conceptualizing clients. We suggest that you begin by checking out the client conceptualization video, as it provides an introduction to client conceptualization, while going through the steps of completing a basic conceptualization. After you have watched the video you may want to download the client conceptualization cards and their instructions, which can be used to practice conceptualizing. School counselors might find the school counselor add-on card pack to be useful in expanding the primary conceptualization card pack.

Supervisors, we have found that this activity is most useful when coupled with the guidance, support, and challenging that comes with supervision. Please feel free to use or modify this activity for use with your students. We have included a special set of instructions/suggestions for supervisors.

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Client Conceptualization Cards

Instructions

The client conceptualization activity instructions can be downloaded here.

Instructions for supervisors can be downloaded here.

Cards

The primary client conceptualization card pack can be downloaded here.

The school counselor add-on pack is coming soon. In the future it will be available for download here.

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Client Conceptualization Cards Animation

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