Ch 1 & 2 Flashcards
Training to become a counselor involves
addressing personal reactions to your work and contertransferences
What are the many benefits of becoming a counselor?
Becoming skilled at developing productive, trusting relationships; learning to love and live more intensely; developing better comprehension of others’ behaviors
Deciding to be a counselor may have larger implications in your life. What could result from this decision?
You will have to face personal fears; all of your relationships will change;you will develop new expectations and standards for intimacy
Which of the following best defines counseling itself?
A process designed to stimulate thinking to increase growth
One predictor of success in counseling may largely be attributed to
clients motivation and attitude
Your goal as a counselor should include
the integration of special skills into your character and personality style
One of the most potentially rewarding (though terrifying) experiences in counseling is:
sharing your essential personal self with another
Counselor training is moving towards
standardized curricula through accreditation and generic training models
Things that influence a counseling practitioner’s style
Theoretical orientation; personality; work setting
Effective counelors tend to
demonstrate certain human qualities that make them attractive and influential
Counseling may be viewed as an ambiguous activity because…
the definition of counseling is vast; clients often are unaware of their real problems; clients are often confused and unfocused
When presenting a definition of counseling to a client, it is imortant to
personalize the description to reflect the client’s needs and counselor’s style
Counseling is most likely to be helpful when all of the following are true:
the counselor is experienced; the counselor follows a flexible plan; the counselor follows a generic process stage
What is true about counselors?
counselors have strong opinions about client choices but try hard to keep them in check so clients can come to their own decisions
The bottom line for success in a counseling program is:
being able to translate text and classroom learning into action
Counselor training programs are among the most challenging experiences a student can undertake because they
demand that you translate learning into action; call for honest self-evaluation of motives; demand emotional, as well as academic commitment, and investment
Motivation to enter the profession is driven by
selfish desires to meet one’s own needs; an altruistic spirit; financial prospects
Counseling inspires students to become a knowledgeable generalist by
reading across disciplines; critically analyzing conceptions of truth; stretching the breadth of one’s personal experiences
To permit the luxury of liking or disliking the client is an example of
yielding to internal distractions
Counselor effectiveness is reduced when counselors are
rigid in pursuit of their personal agendas
Counseling has developed from the following fields:
Education, Philosophy, Medicine, Social Sciences
Historically, counseling roles were filled by
philosophers
Studying the historical foundations of counseling helps the student to
understand how counseling fits into the context of other helping professions
An important difference between psychiatrists and other allied mental health professionals is
their ability to provide and monitor psychotropic medication
Which concept was pioneered by Freud as the process through which healing occurred?
The talking cure
Which influential early publication by Beers criticized the inhumane treatment of the mentally ill and lead to the establishment of the NAMH
…A Mind That Found Itslef
Robert Carkuff and his collaborators are generally credited with identifying
the generic counseling skills essential for effective therapeutic functioning
Parsons’ name is synonymous with
vocational guidance
Freud was responsible for:
developing anesthesia for eye surgery; emphasizing the unconscious motives behind behavior and studying the structure of society
An important tenent we have inherited from the ancient philosophers is
any philosophy is worthless it is personalized and made relevant to everyday life
Distinctions between counselors and other allied mental health professionals have become
less clear as counselors have begun to work with more diverse populations
Counselors focus on
developing a solid relationship with the client, identifying and understanding the client’s core issues from a developmental perspective, employing interventions suited to the client and clinical situation
cost controls associated with manage care have encouraged an increasing emphasis among counselors on
increased integration of brief therapy
Research helps counselors:
to know which techniques and skills will most likely produce which results; to train counselors to think analytically, intentionally, and systematically about problems
Quantitative research in counseling
measures the experiences of clients in ways that can be shared with others
Qualitative research
explores the rich complexity of human experiences and finds underlying themes from clients’ accounts of lived experiences
Aspects of research are important for students of therapeutic counseling
practicing and understanding the terminology and language of the research field; understanding the knowledge and implications of classic studies; having the ability to critically analyze various methods and statistics and draw conclusions
as a result of the standardization of training, counselors:
are earning greater respect and recognition from colleagues in other fields
The term counseling can be represented in the following ways:
prevents rather than fixes problems; employs the use of a developmental model as opposed to a psychopathological model; focuses on issues of adjustment; focuses on short term rather than long term work
the vast majority of research in counseling and psychology in the last 100 years has been
quantitative
