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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Expressing a though or idea in an alternate and sometimes a shortened form






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






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






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






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






6. The individual providing assistance and guidance






7. Rules that govern society






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. Adjustments - motivational in nature - to be achieved






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss






31. That counseling which occurs before a death






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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)






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. 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. A deliberate act of self destruction






40. 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






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






42. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome






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






44. 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






45. The study of death






46. The feelings and their expression






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






48. 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






49. Blame directed towards another person






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