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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






3. The study of death






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Fidelity to moral principles






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






12. 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.






13. 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)






14. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






15. Any act that is charged with symbolic content






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






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






18. 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






19. 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






20. Spoken - oral communication






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






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






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






24. That counseling which occurs before a death






25. 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






26. Adjustments - motivational in nature - to be achieved






27. Beliefs that are held in high esteem






28. 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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. Blame directed towards another person






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






37. 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






38. The experience of the emotion of grief






39. The study of human behavior






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






41. A belief in god or gods






42. 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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






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






48. 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






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






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