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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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1. 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






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Beliefs that are held in high esteem






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






16. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






17. 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.






18. Fidelity to moral principles






19. The study of human behavior






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






21. The experience of the emotion of grief






22. A defense mechanism in which anger is redirected toward a person or object other than the one who caused the anger originally.






23. Any act that is charged with symbolic content






24. 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






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






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






27. The study of death






28. 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)






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






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






31. Adjustments - motivational in nature - to be achieved






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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. The killing of one human being by another






38. The defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self






39. 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






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. Having a sense of honor; upright and fair dealing






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






43. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






44. A deliberate act of self destruction






45. 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






46. 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






47. The individual providing assistance and guidance






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






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






50. Inhibited - suppressed or postponed responce to a loss