(11) Counselling Psych

Question 1

What does a therapist do?

Answer 1

Regular meetings to work on issues and evaluate progress

Question 2

What is the current model of counselling psychology?

Answer 2

Based in human sciences with emphasis on experience and development

Question 3

What are some types of therapy that counsellors might use?

Answer 3

CBT, existential, integrative, psychodynamic, family

Question 4

How do counsellors understand the client?

Answer 4

Allow client to describe how they experience the world and examine the mind from the inside

Question 5

In the psychodynamic approach, what is the main focus?

Answer 5

Unconscious processes/mechanisms that underlie motivations

Question 6

In psychodynamic counselling, what is transference?

Answer 6

Therapist presents scenarios to which the client responds as if they are a past figure and then look at how their patterned thinking emerged

Question 7

According to CBT, what is cognitive appraisal

Answer 7

Making sense of and thinking about an experience

Question 8

What is CBT (process not definition)

Answer 8

Changing behaviour to reframe experience in a way that leads to positive change

Question 9

What does the humanistic approach to counselling focus on

Answer 9

Client is the expert in their own life, expose conditions

Question 10

Phenomenological

Answer 10

relating to an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and direct experience

Question 11

Humanistic physiology

Answer 11

Humans are unique beings and should be treated as such

Question 12

Do you need a PhD to be a counsellor?

Answer 12

No only 50% of provinces do

Question 13

What is the main issue for Canadians wanting to access mental health care?

Answer 13

• Lack of access
• Affordability

Question 14

what are some values of counselling

Answer 14

Client-centred, holistic approach, while attending to external factors (culture, social etc.)

Question 15

What did counselling psychology emerge from?

Answer 15

Career counselling and career assessment

Question 16

What field is counselling expected to merge with

Answer 16

Clinical psychology

Question 17

What are some current issues in counselling psychology?

Answer 17

Incorporating core values of equity, diversity, and inclusion into clinical practice

Question 18

True or false, different cultural groups may have different expectations for a counsellor

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Why is it difficult to teach multicultural competencies

Answer 19

Instructors who belong to minority groups face resistance that white instructors do not

Question 20

True or false, many counsellors feel un-prepared to offer services to diverse clientele

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Why do counsellors feel unequipped to provide services for diverse clientele?

Answer 21

Specific cultural topics often lacked depth or weren’t addressed, many minority counselling strategies taught as electives, courses designed to teach white students to be racially sensitive

Question 22

Eliminating false dichotomies

Answer 22

Every client has a cultural identity and multiple intersecting identities

Question 23

Decolonization

Answer 23

Education on history of psychological marginalization in Canada and break free of individualistic perspectives

Question 24

Utilizing nontraditional approaches to improve multiculturalism

Answer 24

intra- and interpersonal openness to
acknowledge onself as an embedded cultural being, and maintain a genuine
curiousity that works against our own assumptions/biases

Question 25

3 aspects of culture-infused counselling

Answer 25

1. Agreement on goals to be addressed
2. Agreement on tasks each person will fulfill
3. Mutual trust and respect as foundation for facilitating goals/tasks

Question 26

What is case formulation?

Answer 26

Client and clinician work to explain issues client is having and create hypothesis about underlying mechanisms

Question 27

Is there variability in what’s included in case formulation?

Answer 27

Yes, depends on modality, client, clinician

Question 28

What is the DSM-5-TR cultural formulation interview for?

Answer 28

Used in IA of individuals at any age in any setting regardless of cultural background of client or clinician