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Counseling Vocab

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






2. 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






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






4. The individual providing assistance and guidance






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






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






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. Counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with a counselee






9. The experience of the emotion of grief






10. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






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






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






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






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






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






16. A stage of moral development in which moral reasoning is based on reward and punishment from those in authority






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






18. That counseling which occurs before a death






19. 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.






20. 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






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






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






23. The killing of one human being by another






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






25. 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






26. Blame directed towards another person






27. The study of human behavior






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






29. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased






30. 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






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






32. Persons are usually conscious of the realtionship of the reaction to the death - but the reaction to the currect experience is excessive and disabling






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






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






35. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






42. Any act that is charged with symbolic content






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






44. 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'.






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






46. A belief in god or gods






47. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome






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






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






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