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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rules that govern society






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






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






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






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






6. 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)






7. 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






8. 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






9. The study of death






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






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






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






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






14. Guilt felt by the survivors






15. An irrational - exaggerated fear of death






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






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






18. The killing of one human being by another






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






20. Moral principles that vary with circumstance






21. 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'.






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






23. 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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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.






29. Spoken - oral communication






30. Advice - especially that given as a result of consultation






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. Beliefs that are held in high esteem






39. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased






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. 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






42. A deliberate act of self destruction






43. 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






44. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss






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






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






47. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






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






49. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






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