Chapter 14

Question 1

True or False: Counselors should only develop coping skills if they don’t feel they can handle the job

Answer 1

False- All Counselors should have coping skills to handle the plethora of stressors that emerge in our work

Question 2

True or False: There are more stressors working with the addicted populations

Answer 2

True: There are more stressors related to life and death issues, career and family issues with this population

Question 3

What is personal counseling?

Answer 3

Personal issues of the counselor may be revealed in counseling relationships as a need to fix clients, to remove clients’ emotional pain, to be perfect, to assume too much responsibility for client change.

Question 4

How does Supervision help you as a counselor?

Answer 4

o Supervision allows the supervisee a forum for discussion about cases, personal and professional introspection, and internal reactions to clients.

o Supervision allows for time to clinically debrief, receive feedback, validation and a sense of confidence for future sessions.

Question 5

What does a Wellness Model Look like?

Answer 5

Self Help Meetings
Continuing Education
Nutrition and Hydration
Breathing Exercises
Exercise and Stretching
Hobbies and Leisure activities
Detaching 
Counselor Support (peers, supervisors)

Question 6

Why is self care important?

Answer 6

• Self-care for counselors is important to combat vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue AND is an ethical mandate

Question 7

True or False: Compassion Fatigue refers to the profound emotional and physical erosion that takes place when helpers are unable to refuel and regenerate.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What is vicarious trauma?

Answer 8

the result of hearing clients talk about trauma they have experienced-was coined by Pearlman & Saakvitne (1995) to describe the profound shift in world view that occurs in helping professionals when they work with clients who have experienced trauma: helpers notice that their fundamental beliefs about the world are altered and possibly damaged by being repeatedly exposed to traumatic material

Question 9

What is burn out?

Answer 9

Burnout is a term used since the early 1980s describing the physical and emotional exhaustion that workers can experience when they have low job satisfaction.