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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. 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






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






4. 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)






5. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased






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. The feelings and their expression






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






9. 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.






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






11. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome






12. 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






13. 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






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






15. Those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral






16. That counseling which occurs before a death






17. 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






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






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






20. A process occuring with losses aimed at loosening the attachement ot that which has been lost for appropriate reinvestment






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






22. Guilt felt by the survivors






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






24. Adjustments - motivational in nature - to be achieved






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






26. The ability to present one's self sincerely






27. An irrational - exaggerated fear of death






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






29. Choice of actions provided through counseling as a means on solving the counselee's problem






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






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. 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






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. The killing of one human being by another






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






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






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






40. The experience of the emotion of grief






41. The study of human behavior






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. Blame directed towards another person






48. The study of death






49. The individual providing assistance and guidance






50. Fidelity to moral principles