Crisis Attending Skills

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Class & Professor, First, I want to apologize for my late posting, it has been a crazy week (had my own major crisis to deal with) but I have been doing my best to get this done in the little time I had. The basic attending skills needed during crisis intervention like eye contact, warmth, body posture, vocal style, verbal following, overall empathy (focus on client), (Kanel, p. 51), are essential for helping the client and counselor develop rapport. Without these skills, the client would not feel comfortable enough to open up to the counselor or to the intervention process. These skills help the client to feel at ease, and as Kanel (2014) put it “The primary purpose of using the basic attending skills is to gain a clear understanding of