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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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1. 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






2. The individual seeking assistance or guidance






3. Any act that is charged with symbolic content






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






5. 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






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






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






8. Spoken - oral communication






9. A belief in god or gods






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






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






12. Blame directed towards another person






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






14. 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






15. Fidelity to moral principles






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. That counseling which occurs before a death






23. 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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. A deliberate act of self destruction






27. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss






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






29. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






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






31. An irrational - exaggerated fear of death






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






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






34. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






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






36. The feelings and their expression






37. A defense mechanism in which anger is redirected toward a person or object other than the one who caused the anger originally.






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






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






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






41. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased






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






43. Guilt felt by the survivors






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome