Chapter 2 Flashcards
Effectiveness of a Counselor
Personality and background
Formal education
Ability to engage in counseling activities (professional)
Dysfunctional Motivators
Emotional distress Vicarious coping Loneliness and isolation Desire for power Need for love Vicarious rebellion
Positive Qualities of a Counselor/functional motivators
Cusiousity/inquisitiveness Ability to listen Comfort with conversation Empathy and understanding Emotional insightfulness Introspection Capacity for self-denial Tolerance of intimacy Comfort with power Ability to laugh stability intellectual competence energy flexibility support system goodwill self-awareness awareness of cultural experiences life experience
The ability to work from a perspective of resolved emotional experience that has sensitized a person to self and others in a helpful way
Wounded healer
Qualities of Effective Counselors
Intellectual competence Energy Flexibility Support Goodwill Self awareness
Two simultaneous events that occur coincidentally and result in a meaningful connection; most productive way for counselors to perceive and deal with unexpected life experiences
Synchronicity
State of becoming emotionally or physically drained to the point that one cannot perform problems meaningfully
Burnout
Avoiding burnout
Associate with healthy people Work with a place with a mission Be reasonably committed to counseling theory Use stress-reduction stressors Engage in self assessment Periodically examine and clarify counseling roles, expectations, and beliefs Obtain personal therapy Set aside free and private time Maintain detached concern attitude Retain an attitude of hope
an innovative way of providing group supervision, especially in working with couples and families
reflective team model
a process that involves all three members simultaneously, is also a promising method of supervision in which fleeing counselors can gain insight from both their supervisor and a peer
triadic supervision
supervision among equals
peer supervision
promoting an idea or a cause through public relations; involves networking and education
advocacy
refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on principles of equality, that values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being
social justice
entails establishing a sense of social/political urgency reading an issue, organizing and educating a group of people to initiate social/polictical change, developing a vision and strategy for such change, communicating the vision for that change, empowering broad-based action, and generating actual change
process of creating change
a form of communication that documents an individual’s training, work, and pertinent life experiences
portfolio
a continuous collection of unabridged artifacts counselors can use as evidence of professional competence
working portfolio
more limited in nature and usually consists of materials needed for a particular project, such as becoming an expert witness in a court of law
presentation portfolio
refers to federal legislation passed in 1996, intended to improve efficiency in healthcare delivery by standardizing electronic data interchange and protects confidentiality and security of health data through setting and enforcing standards
HIPAA
a model or explanation that counselors can use to hypothesize about the formation of people’s problems and possible solutions
theory
theories provide counselors with
direction, structure, consistency language conference of ideas a way of making sense about people and their problems
SOLER
squarely open lean forward eye contact relax
friendly colleagues, try to assist whenever possible
nonprofessional helping relationship
have received some training, but work as part of a team, RAs
generalist human service workers
educated to provide assistance on both a preventative and remedial level; counselors, psychologists, social workers
professional helpers
