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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A highly emotional termporary state in which an individual's feelings of anxiety - grief - confusion or pain impair his or her ability to act






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. A belief in god or gods






9. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






10. A defense mechanism in which anger is redirected toward a person or object other than the one who caused the anger originally.






11. Helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief to a healthly completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame






12. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased






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






14. An irrational - exaggerated fear of death






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






16. The individual providing assistance and guidance






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






18. A process occuring with losses aimed at loosening the attachement ot that which has been lost for appropriate reinvestment






19. 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






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






21. Feelings such as happiness - anger or grief - careated by brain patterns accompanied by bodily changes






22. Occur when persons experience symptoms and behaviors which cause them difficulty but they do not see or recognise the fact that these are related to the loss






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






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






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






26. 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






27. 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






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






29. A state of tension - typically characterized by rapid heartbeat - shortness of breath and other similar ramifications of arousal of the autonomic nervous system; an emotion characterized by a vague fear or promonition that something undesirable is go






30. Beliefs that are held in high esteem






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






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






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






35. The experience of the emotion of grief






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






37. Having a sense of honor; upright and fair dealing






38. 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






39. Blame directed towards another person






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






41. Interventions for a highly emotional - temporary state in which individuals - overcome by feelings of anxiety - grief - confusion - or pain are unable to act in a realistic - normal manner. intentional responces which help individuals in a crisis sit






42. The reaction of the body to an even often experienced emotionally as a sudden - violent and upsetting disturbance






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






44. Rules that govern society






45. The intense physical and emotional expression of grief occuring as the awareness increases of a loss of someone or something significant






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






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






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






49. 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






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