OARS Skills Videos

OPEN ENDED QUESTION EXAMPLES

Open-Ended Questions

Open-ended questions are a helpful tool to gather new information. These examples show an open-ended questions.

Open-Ended Question & Reflection
Open-ended questions are a helpful tool to gather new information. This example shows an open ended question that also uses reflections. Reflections are helpful as they show that you are listening and understand what a caregiver is saying.

Open-Ended Question & Affirmation
Open-ended questions are a helpful tool to gather new information. This example shows an open ended question that also uses an affirmation to encourage a caregiver and show emotional support

AFFIRMATION EXAMPLES

Affirmations are helpful tools that help affirm and encourage a caregiver and their actions. They can be especially helpful in developing a rapport with a caregiver as it shows your emotional support.

REFLECTION EXAMPLES

Emotion Focused Reflection
This is an emotional focus reflection, which addresses the emotion of a statement.
Emotion Focused Reflection – Multiple Caregiver
This is an emotional focus reflection, which addresses the emotion of a statement. In this example, the home visitor reflects the a caregivers conflicting emotions regarding her mothers role as another caretaker in the family.
Emotion Focused Reflection – Signs of Depression
An emotion focused reflection reflects the emotion in a statement.
Complex Reflection
In this example, the home visitor uses a complex reflection to reflect a caregivers desire to maintain her social life with friends and how important that is to her, considering the hard work she puts in as a caretaker.
Double-Sided Reflection – Managing Overwhelming Family Expectations
Double-sided reflections reflect both the change and sustain talk in a statement. In this example the home visitor uses a double sided reflection when discussing a caregivers overwhelming family expectations.
Double-Sided Reflection – Readiness to Change
This video shows an example of a double-sided reflection, which is a reflection that considers both the change and sustain talk in a statement.
Double-Sided Reflection – Signs of Depression
In this example, a home visitor reflects a caregivers sustain and change talk regarding her ambivalence to seeking mental health counseling.


Open-Ended Question & Reflection

Open-ended questions are a helpful tool to gather new information. This example shows an open-ended question that also uses reflections. Reflections are helpful as they show that you are listening and understand what a caregiver is saying.


Open-Ended Question & Double-Sided Reflection

Open-ended questions are a helpful tool to gather new information. This example shows an open ended question that also uses a double-sided reflection, which is a reflection that considers both sides of a caregivers ambivalence.

SUMMARY EXAMPLES

Summaries are an important tool to show are caregiver that you are engaged in what they are saying and listening. There are many examples of summaries being used in a home visit.

 


Summary – Readiness to Change

Summaries are an important tool to show are caregiver that you are engaged in what they are saying and listening. This is an example of a of summary being used in a home visit with a mother who is considering drinking less so it wouldn’t affect her parenting.


Summary 2 – Readiness to Change

Screening Summary
In this example, a home visitor summarizes a caregivers plans to reduce substance use.