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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. Fidelity to moral principles






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. Guilt felt by the survivors






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






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






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






19. A rule of ethical conduct found in some form in most major religious usually phrased - 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you'.






20. 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






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






22. Rules that govern society






23. Adjustments - motivational in nature - to be achieved






24. The experience of the emotion of grief






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






26. The ability to present one's self sincerely






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






28. 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)






29. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






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






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






32. 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






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






34. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss






35. The study of human behavior






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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. The individual providing assistance and guidance






42. 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






43. A deliberate act of self destruction






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. Blame directed toward one's self based on real or unreal conditions






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






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






48. 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






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. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased