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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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  • 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. The cultural heritage or identity of a group - based on factors such as language or country of origin






3. 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






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






5. The individual seeking assistance or guidance






6. 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






7. The killing of one human being by another






8. An irrational - exaggerated fear of death






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






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






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






12. 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'.






13. That counseling which occurs before a death






14. Rules that govern society






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






16. A deliberate act of self destruction






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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






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






21. The feelings and their expression






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






23. 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






24. Moral principles that vary with circumstance






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






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






27. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






28. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome






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






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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






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






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






35. 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)






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






37. The experience of the emotion of grief






38. 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.






39. Fidelity to moral principles






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






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






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






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






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






45. The study of human behavior






46. Spoken - oral communication






47. 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






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






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






50. Beliefs that are held in high esteem