Basic Counseling Flashcards

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S-o-l-e-r stand for ?

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Square to client
Open posture
Lean in
Eye contact
Relaxed

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What are 3 ways to probe

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  • Statement = i’m not sure I understand how you intend to…..?
  • Questions = In situations like that, what keeps you from deciding?
  • Request= Tell me what you mean when you say ….?

Probes can be verbal and non verbal
They’re what we do when we want to move a session along

Probe empathy probe

Tell me more is a good ex of a probe

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What are the limits of confidentiality?

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Exceptions are
- when client could be at risk to harm themselves or others
- Mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse
- when so ordered By a court of law

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What are the suicide risk factors?

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  • Social isolation
  • Resent loss
  • History of trauma
  • Substance abuse
  • Mental health challenges
  • History of suicide
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Warning signs of suicide

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  • Ideations
  • Substance abuse and changes in amount
  • Purposelessness, Feeling trapped
  • Impulsiveness, mood change, lack of self care
  • Giving away possessions
  • Making a will
  • Self harming
  • Low risk it doesn’t mean no rest

-Lack of self care/neglect

-Loss of interest informally enjoyable activities

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What are the 4 P’s ?

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Pain. How much pain is there?

Plan Do they have a plan ?

Positives

Previous attempts

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How to approach after you find a client is a risk for suicide

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Ask directly

1 are you thinking of killing yourself?
2 Do you have a plan to do so?
3 Do you have the means to do so?

Find who can support them

Help them think of purpose in life and future
Always ! check in with the client every session once suicide has ever become a topic, even if they’re not displaying any symptoms.

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Once we have established the ideation of suicide we can ?

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  • find out what kind of support they have? Who can support them?
  • Get them thinking about their future. Do they have any plans in life in the future?
  • help them find a purpose in life like who is going to feed the cat?
  • Assess if they are low medium or high risk
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What is the purpose of Counseling?

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To help the clients learn their own stories
- We are here to help the person finally from the stresses
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What are the four values that we need to keep checking back in on to make sure we are living by these?

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1 respect
2 Empathy
3 Proactive appreciation of diversity-sense of the world
4 Biased towards action-outcome focused

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What is cognitive distortion?

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Cognitive distortion or unhealthy ways of view in the world.
we must challenge these cognitive distortions in our clients 

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What is the skilled helper model and what are the stages?

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Provides a Framework for helpers to use their skills and knowledge in a way that supports clients to make the changes necessary for life enhancing outcomes.

Stage 1 current picture/ what’s going on?
This Is where we want to be most of the time as counsellors.
-Were helping the client tell their story the real story and the right story. Assessment stage, looking for and highlighting their abilities, reframe their stories.

Stage 2 preferred picture/ what does a better future look like?

 More goal orientated, discover possibilities and how to get there this is more coaching

Stage 3 the way forward/how do I get there?

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What is CBT ?

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Cognitive behavioural therapy
- successful in dealing with depression & anxiety
- CBT posits that started thoughts or core beliefs me to emotional and behavioural challenges
- It’s not concerned with the origins of the beliefs but more so I’m changing thoughts and behaviours

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What is an example of CBT interventions and techniques?

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  • using a log or journal to record thoughts feelings and behaviours
  • Questioning thoughts and beliefs
  • Reinforcement of positive behaviours
  • Desensitisation
  • Graduated exposure to fear accompanied with relaxation
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What is holistic model or biopsychosocial model?

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  • it is holistic counselling looking at the spiritual emotional social mental physical and vocational needs of a person in where the imbalances are
  • Looking at what the client needs based off the whole system
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What is narrative therapy?

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-  narrative therapy focuses on peoples narratives and emphasises the clients abilities to create new stories, draw gifts, successes, and themes from their stories
- Collaborating with clients to empower them to step away from problem saturated or a price of stories and begin to explore untold stories where their intentions, hopes, values, desires and dreams have room to thrive is central to the therapist roll.

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What is somatic therapy?

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  • Focuses on trauma being stored in the body, blockages can build up and be called body armour overtime, these need to be released
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What is the client centred/person centred therapy?

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  •  is based off I believe from Carl Rogers that all clients in an hour with the problem, can improve without being taught anything specific from a therapist once they can respect themselves the resources all lie within the corner
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Where is the five council modalities

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  • client centred/person centred therapy = All people are good unconditional positive regard the resources all lie within a client When is they can respect themselves
    -Somatic therapy/the body keep score
    -Narrative therapy = Understanding our stories the patterns are values reframing them
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy = Focusing on distorted thoughts, core beliefs and how they lead to emotional and behavioural challenges focusing on behaviour and graduated exposure to fear company with relaxation
    -Bps biopsychosocial model holistic model focusing on the physical mental social emotional location on spiritual needs of a person and how everything is connected
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Skilled helper goals are?

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-Life enhancing outcomes-Helps the client manage their problems I’m living my affectively and develop and use their under resources and opportunities more fully.

-Learning how to help oneself-Help the client manage their own lives better help with problem-solving skills communication skills finding resources and tools

-Prevention mentality-having a client learn how to predict potential problems and prevent these problems from happening or worsening

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What is a skilled helper model?

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Provides a framework for helpers to use their skills and knowledge in a way that supports the clients to make changes necessary for life enhancing outcomes

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Three stages of skilled helper model?

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  • stage one
    Current picture-What’s going on?

This is an assessment stage, how’s the client tell their stories reframe the stories and develop a new more useful perspective And behaviours

-Stage two
-preferred picture-What do I need or want?

Divergent thinking helpline explore questions what is a better future look like.? Helps clients explore and create a vision for how they’ve lost their lives in.

Stage three
– the way forward-How do I get what I want I need?

How do I get there? Plans actions and their necessary to create a kitchen

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What is the basic formula of empathy?

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You feel ____ because _____

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When is it appropriate to use summaries?

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When they add value,

at the beginning of a new session,

during a session that is going nowhere,

when a client needs a new perspective,

get clients to provide summaries 

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List the target to challenging

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-self-defeating mindsets such as prejudice

-Self-limiting internal behaviours, such as dysfunctional daydreaming

-Self-defeating expressions of feelings and emotions such as flying off the handle

-dysfunctional external behaviours such as putting people down

-Distorted understanding of their world

-Discrepancies between thinking and acting

-Unused strength and resources

-The predictable dishonesties of every day life

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Invite clients to challenge their blindspots

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-Simple unawareness

-failure to think things through

-Denial, whether conscious choice or not

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Guidelines needed for challenge

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Develop a solid relationship

Work on my own life

Keep the goals of invitations to Client to self challenge in mind

Invite clients to challenge on used strengths rather than weaknesses

Avoid the MUM effect

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What is immediacy?

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 ability to discuss directly and openly what is happening in the relationship in the present moment.

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When do use immediacy?

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When a session lacks direction

When tension exists between the helper and the client

When trust is an issue

When diversity or social distance exist between the client and a helper

When dependency is interfering with a relationship

When transference is blocking the helping relationship

When attraction is sidetracking either helper or client

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Helper self-disclosure

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Use sparingly

Make sure it’s appropriate

Be mindful of timing

Keep to slow disclosure selective and focused

Only disclose if it will benefit the client and not the helper

It’s always about the client

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What is the DSM-5?

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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, it is used to diagnose mental disorders

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Areas to probe concerned about suicide

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Desire -How frequently?
-On a scale of one to 10 how much distress is the person in?
-Assess their perceived burdens to others
-Assess if they feel trapped or alone

capability- Do they have a history of attempts?
-Has someone else in my life committed suicide?
-Do you have a history of violence towards others?
-Do they have the means at their disposal?
-Are there experiencing acute mental illness?

intent - Who is the attempt in progress?
-Do they have a plan how and when?
-Are they making preparations