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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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1. A formal act or observance that may or may not have symbolic content






2. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss






3. 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






4. 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






5. An irrational - exaggerated fear of death






6. 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






7. 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






8. A stage of moral development in which moral reasoning is based on reward and punishment from those in authority






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






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






11. A general term for the exchange of information - feelings - thoughts and acts between two or more people - including both verbal and nonverbal aspects o fthis interchange






12. The ability to present one's self sincerely






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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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)






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






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased






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






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. The killing of one human being by another






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






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






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






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






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






34. Crib death. the sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant - which remains unexplained after a complete autopsy and a review of the circumstances around the death






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






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






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






38. Guilt felt by the survivors






39. 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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






48. The study of death






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






50. Blame directed towards another person