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
can earn a PhD, EdD, PsyD; may be concentrated in clinical, counseling, or school-related areas; National Register of Health Service Providers
psychologists
usually earn MSW or bachelor’s; includes mandates to negotiate social systems and advocate for change, understand client’s habitats, and provide social services, niche
social workers
physical and social settings with in cultural contexts
habitats
statuses and roles in community
niches
earn MD and complete a residency in psychiatry; specials in working with people who have major psychological disorders, schooled in biomedical model; see patients
psychiatrists
focuses on the physical processes thought to underlay mental and emotional disorders
biomedical model
primary national agency that certifies counselors
NBCC; National board of certified counselors
evolved from ACES and ACA to establish standards and guidelines for counseling independent of the NCATE (national council for accreditation of teacher education)
CACREP; council for accreditation of counseling and related education programs
eight common core areas of counseling
human growth and development social and cultural foundations helping relationships groups lifestyles and career development appraisal research and evaluation professional orientation
four types of professional credentials
inspection
registration
certification
licensure
a state agency periodically examines the activities of a profession’s practitioners to ascertain whether they are practicing the profession in a fashion consistent with public safety, health, and welfare
inspection
requires practitioners to submit info to the state concerting the nature of their practical register and professional counselor
registration
professional, statutory, or non statutory process by which an agency or association grants recognition to an individual for having met certain predetermined professional qualifications
certification
minimum 48 semester or 72 quarter hours to graduate; must bass NCE, national counselor examination
NCC
the statutory process by which an agency of government, usually a state, grants permission to a person meeting predetermined qualifications to engage in a given occupation and or use a particular tittle and to perform specific functions
licensure
coordinates efforts at uniformity and growth in counseling licensure
AASCB; americal association of state counseling boards
what the counselor attributes the cause of a client’s problems
attribution
a unified and organized set of ideas, principles, and behaviors
system
4 attribution models
medical
moral
compensatory
enlightenment
clients are not responsible for problems or solution
medical model
client responsible for problem and solution
moral model
client responsible for solving, not causing
compensatory model
client responsible for causing their problems, but not for solving; it may become dependent on counselor
enlightenment model
based on states various personality theorists have outlined that people go through as a normal part of human growth
developmental/wellness perspective
sensorimotor, concrete, formation, post formal
Piagetian concepts of cognitive levels
addresses the sequence and process of development as it occurs in the natural language of the interview
developmental counseling and therapy
the ability to recover relatively quickly from setbacks and trauma
resilience
a proactive, psychoeducational intervention that can be used in schools and with adults; helped to understand their problematic situations, acquire skills for coping with them, and apply this knowledge to present and even future events through imagery or simulated rehearsal
stress inoculation training
based around DSM of mental disorders
medical/pathological model
heaps counselors stay up to state with theories and practice, getting needed supervision, and advocating for clients
CEUs (contining education units)
an interactive and evaluative process in which someone with more proficiency oversees the work of someone with less knowledge and skill to inhale the professional functioning of the junior member
supervision
STIPS
signs and symptoms
topics discussed in counseling
Interventions used
progress and counselors’ continuing plan for treatment
Special issues of importance regarding clients;
enhances their ability to acquire relevant facts about clients, better understand clients’ presenting problems, better monitor counseling processes, and better evaluation and adjust treatment interventions
STIPS
where those being supervised fluctuate between being dependent and autonomous
client-centered stage
where supervisees exhibit exhibit increased professional self-confidence, with increased insight beyond specific skills
process centered stage
where counselors become more integrated in regard to personal autonomy, insightful awareness, and skills
context centered stage
