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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss






2. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






3. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome






4. That branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct - with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certian actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions (webster)






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






6. Adjustments - motivational in nature - to be achieved






7. A stage of moral development in which the expectations of the social group (family - community and nation) are supported and maintained






8. A relation of harmony - conformity - accord - or affinity established in any human interaction






9. A strong emotion characterized by sudden and extreme fear.






10. A stage of moral development in which the individual considers universal moral principles which supersede the authority of the group






11. That which is expressed by posture - facial expression - actions - physical behavior; that which is communivated by any means except verbally






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






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






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






15. That counseling which occurs before a death






16. 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






17. The tendency in human beings to make strong affectional bonds with others coming from the need for secrity and safety






18. The set of values - ideas and opinions of an individual or group






19. Consists of abstract patterns (the rules - ideas - beliefs shared by members of society) of and for living and dying - which are learned directly or indirectly






20. Fidelity to moral principles






21. Blame directed towards another person






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






23. 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






24. A stage moral development in which the inididual is characterized as not understanding the rules or feeling a sense of obligation to them. looking to experience only that which is good or pleasant or to avoid that which is painful.






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






26. Syndrome characterized by the presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss; the actualy death comes as a confirmation of knowledge of a life-limiting condition






27. Rules that govern society






28. Related to specific sitations in life that may create crisis and produce human pain and suffering. This type of couseling adds another diminsion to the giving of information in that it deals with significant feelings that are produced by life crises






29. 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






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






31. An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss






32. A death has occured and the funeral director is counseling with the family as they select the services and items of merchandise in completing arrangements for the funeral service of their choice.






33. The ability to be considerate and friendly as demonstrated by both verbal and non-verbal






34. Guilt felt by the survivors






35. 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






36. The cultural heritage or identity of a group - based on factors such as language or country of origin






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






38. Counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with a counselee






39. 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






40. Spoken - oral communication






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






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






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






44. The study of human behavior






45. The experience of the emotion of grief






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






47. Moral principles that vary with circumstance






48. A phrase coined by Carl Rogers to refer to that type of counseling where one comes actively and voluntarily to gain help on a problem - but without any notion of surrendering his own responsiblity for the situation; a non-drective method of counselin






49. Any act that is charged with symbolic content






50. Adefense mechanism used in grief to return to more familiar and often more primitive modes of coping