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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the reorganization of the life on an individual following a loss of death of someone loved






2. The individual's ability to adjust the psychological and emotional changes brought on by a stressful even such as the death of a significant other






3. That counseling which occurs before a death






4. Guilt felt by the survivors






5. Providing a choice of services and merchandise available as families make a selection and complete funeral arrangements - formulating different actions in adjustine to a crisis






6. Good comminication within and between men; or good free communication within or between men is always therapeutic






7. Detailed examples of adjustments - choices - or alternatives available to the client or counselee from which a course of action may be selected






8. Couselor takes a live speaking role - asking questions - suggesting courses of action - etc.






9. Grief extending over a long period of time without resolution






10. A therapeutic experiance for reasonably healthy persons. do no confuse this with psychotherapy which is treatment for emotionally disturbed persons - who seek or are referred for assistance with pathological problems. A counselor's clients are encour






11. Strong emotion marked by such reactions as alarm - dread - and disquieting






12. The state of estrangement an inidvidual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign - unpredictable or unacceptable






13. The customs - values - and standards of practice of a group - age - or theory intended to be timeless.






14. The feelings and their expression






15. Any event - person or object that lessens the degreee of pain in grief






16. The state of being prevented from attaining a purpose; thwarted; the blocking of the satisfaction of a perceived need by some kind of obstacle






17. Rules that govern society






18. The ability to enter into and share the feelings of others






19. To hold certain information in trust and not disclose without proper authorization or authority






20. Something - as a reason or desire - acting as a spur to action






21. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






22. The study of human behavior as related to funeral service






23. The ability to present one's self sincerely






24. Intervention with people whose needs are so specific that usually they can only be met by specifically trained physicians or psychologists. The practicioners in this field need special training because they often work with deeper levels of consciousn






25. Fidelity to moral principles






26. A learned emotional response to death-related phenomenon which is characterized by extreme apprehension






27. A belief in god or gods






28. The individual providing assistance and guidance






29. An organized - flexible - purposeful - group centered - time-limited response to death which reflects revernce - dignity and respect






30. Those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral






31. Moral principles that vary with circumstance






32. The defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self






33. A formal act or observance that may or may not have symbolic content






34. The killing of one human being by another






35. Persons are usually conscious of the realtionship of the reaction to the death - but the reaction to the currect experience is excessive and disabling






36. Advice - especially that given as a result of consultation






37. Giving undivided attention by means of verbal and non-verbal behavior






38. Centering a client's thinking and feelings on the situation causing a problem and assisting the person in choosing the behavior or adjustment to solve the problem






39. A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs 2) emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs and 3) overt conduct presumable implementing the beliefs and feelings






40. Beliefs that are held in high esteem






41. A term to describe the experience of grief - espeically in young bereaved parents - where mourning customes are unclear due to an inappropriate death and the abscense of prior bereavement experience; typical in a society that has attempted to minimiz






42. An act or practice of allowing the death of persons suffering from a life-limiting condition






43. The asumption of blame directed toward one's self by others






44. Choice of actions provided through counseling as a means on solving the counselee's problem






45. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss






46. According to client-centered counseling - the necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and other's perception of one-self.






47. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






48. To assist in understanding of the circumstances or situations the individual is experiencing - and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary






49. The rite of finality in a funeral service preceeding cremation - earth burial - entombment or burial at sea






50. A philosophy that does not focus on the worship of a god or gods.