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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ability to present one's self sincerely






2. The study of death






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






4. Adjustments - motivational in nature - to be achieved






5. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased






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






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






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






9. Centering a client's thinking and feelings on the situation causing a problem and assisting the person in choosing the behavior or adjustment to solve the problem






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






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






12. Rules that govern society






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






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






15. The study of human behavior






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. Blame directed towards another person






22. Any act that is charged with symbolic content






23. 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






24. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






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






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






27. The experience of the emotion of grief






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






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






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






32. An irrational - exaggerated fear of death






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






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






35. An organized - flexible - purposeful - group centered - time-limited response to death which reflects revernce - dignity and respect






36. 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






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






38. 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'.






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






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. Guilt felt by the survivors






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






43. The individual seeking assistance or guidance






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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)