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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Expressing a though or idea in an alternate and sometimes a shortened form






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






3. The study of death






4. 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






5. The state of estrangement an inidvidual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign - unpredictable or unacceptable






6. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss






7. The individual seeking assistance or guidance






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






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






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






11. Beliefs that are held in high esteem






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






13. Blame directed toward one's self based on real or unreal conditions






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






15. 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






16. Spoken - oral communication






17. Rules that govern society






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






19. 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)






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






25. 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






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






27. The feelings and their expression






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






29. Guilt felt by the survivors






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






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






32. 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






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






34. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






35. A deliberate act of self destruction






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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'.






41. Any act that is charged with symbolic content






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






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






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






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






46. Moral principles that vary with circumstance






47. 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






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






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






50. An irrational - exaggerated fear of death