Questioning skills not only important in counseling but also in life.
there is open-ended question and close questions.
The purpose of this skill is to open and close other's talk. It may also bring out additional specifics.
For the open-ended questions, it require more than a minimal or one word response by client. Open ended questions bring out a new topic and pinpoint. Besides that, open ended questions may help client to elaborate stories. It helps counselor understand the client stories more and suitable for client who talk less. This type of questions may ask by using when, how , where, could and what.
Example, "Could you give me a specific example ?"
On the other hand, close questions focus on one particular part of client content message. If the counselor want the client a specific information, the counselor should ask close questions.
Close questions give more control to the interviewer who talk much. Normally close questions are answer by yes or no or just a word.
Example: "Did you finish your homework? "
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