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Counseling Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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1. An act or practice of allowing the death of persons suffering from a life-limiting condition






2. 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)






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






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. Any act that is charged with symbolic content






7. 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






8. The study of human behavior






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






10. 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






11. Adjustments - motivational in nature - to be achieved






12. 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






13. Any time someone helps someone else with a problem






14. Guilt felt by the survivors






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. A stage of moral development in which moral reasoning is based on reward and punishment from those in authority






23. 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






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






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






26. A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns






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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. Moral principles that vary with circumstance






33. The killing of one human being by another






34. 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.






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






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






37. Blame directed towards another person






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






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. The experience of the emotion of grief






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






42. 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






43. The study of death






44. 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






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






46. Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased






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






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






49. 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






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