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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Guilt felt by the survivors






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






3. A belief in god or gods






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






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






6. Fidelity to moral principles






7. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






14. To assist in understanding of the circumstances or situations the individual is experiencing - and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary






15. 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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






25. Rules that govern society






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






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






28. That counseling which occurs before a death






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






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






31. 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)






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






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






34. 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






35. Spoken - oral communication






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. The study of death






48. Advice - especially that given as a result of consultation






49. 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






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







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