Test your basic knowledge |

Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Giving undivided attention by means of verbal and non-verbal behavior






2. To hold certain information in trust and not disclose without proper authorization or authority






3. 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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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)






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. 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






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






18. The feelings and their expression






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






20. 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.






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






22. The study of human behavior






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. The ability to present one's self sincerely






37. The cultural heritage or identity of a group - based on factors such as language or country of origin






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






39. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased






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






41. 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






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






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






44. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss






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






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






47. Blame directed towards another person






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






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






50. Fidelity to moral principles