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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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






2. Adjustments - motivational in nature - to be achieved






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






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






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






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






7. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss






8. The experience of the emotion of grief






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






10. 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






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






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






13. An irrational - exaggerated fear of death






14. The ability to communicate the belief that everyone possesses the capacity and right to choose alternatives and make decisions






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






16. The study of human behavior






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






18. That counseling which occurs before a death






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






20. The killing of one human being by another






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






22. 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'.






23. 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






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. 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






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






29. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






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






31. The individual providing assistance and guidance






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Guilt felt by the survivors






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






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