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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief to a healthly completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame






2. The feelings and their expression






3. Fidelity to moral principles






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






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






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






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






8. Blame directed towards another person






9. 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)






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






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






12. Expressing a though or idea in an alternate and sometimes a shortened form






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






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






15. A highly emotional termporary state in which an individual's feelings of anxiety - grief - confusion or pain impair his or her ability to act






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






17. Guilt felt by the survivors






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






19. Any act that is charged with symbolic content






20. 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






21. The individual seeking assistance or guidance






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






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






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






28. A brief review of points covered in a portion of the counseling session






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






30. 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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. 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






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






37. Sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss






38. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






39. Spoken - oral communication






40. 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






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






42. The killing of one human being by another






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






45. 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






46. Support or support system provided to the counselee who is seeking an alternative to problems






47. 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






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






49. A belief in god or gods






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