Chapters 1,2,3 Flashcards
ACA definition of counseling
A professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups too accomplish health, wellness, education and career goals.
1800’s
- Medical model: stemmed from curing syphilis
- Late 1800’s Freud “talk therapy”, Psychoanalysis -> Psychiatry
- 1892: APA, American Psychological Association
- 1896: First clinic in Philadelphia for children opened
1900’s
- Counseling: Frank Parson’s started to “guide” the unemployed
- Testing Started during World War I
- The first marriage & family counseling center was formed
- The first theory: Trait-Factor Counseling OR Directive Counseling
- Carl Rogers: Client focused (non directive), Individual’s ability to make their own life choices. (Challenging Parsons, Freud, Williamson)
- 1952: 1st DSM
- Space Race -> American Education Act (funding for counseling)
- 1963: Community Health Act “Deinstitutionalization”
- 60’s pharmacological treatment + new theories, 1st licensure
Behavioral Theories
Joseph Wolpe (1958)
Systematic desensitization is a type of behavioral therapy based on the principle of classical conditioning
Rational-Emotive Theory
Albert Ellis (1962) - ABC model
Thoughts -> Feelings, Behavior: all interact together
Goal of the therapy is to change irrational beliefs to more rational ones.
Cognitive Theories
Aaron Beck (1967) - CBT
Cognitive Model: The way that individuals perceive a situation is more closely connected to their reaction than the situation itself.
Weldon v. Virginia State board of psychologists examiners
1974 Established counseling as a profession distinct from psychology
1976 - 1st LPC & AMHCA (American mental health counseling Association)
CACREP
1981 - Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs
NBCC
1982 - National Board for Certified Counselors
- offers specialty certifications after receiving NCC
CSI
1985 - Chi Sigma Iota
Professional Identity
- critical for growth & health
- creates behavioral norms, values, ethics & professional pride.
- Facilitated by legal recognition (Licensure), Memberships professional organizations, Standards of behavior (code of ethics)
Psychiatry
Based on medical model
Social work
Mission to improve the quality of life, Promote social values and encourage self advocacy
Psychology
Emphasizes the scientist- practitioner
- aka “Testing and Assessment”
Counseling
- Wellness focused
- Prevention
- Human development (solve their own problems)
- Holistic approach
Ethical codes
ACA
AMHCA
- expands on the ACA
- more protective of client rights
Informed Consent
Always verbalize prior to starting session.
It is not just paperwork
Kitchner Model
5 moral principles
- Autonomy
- Nonmaleficence
- Beneficence
- Justice
- Fidelity