Chp 1 and 2

Question 1

Interviewing

Answer 1

The basic process used for gathering data, providing information and SUGGESTIONS to clients and offering workable alternatives for resolving concerns

Question 2

Counseling

Answer 2

Focus is on listening to and understanding a client’s life challenges and then developing strategies for change and growth

Question 3

Psychotherapy

Answer 3

Focuses on more deep-seated difficulties, which often require more time for resolution

Question 4

Cultural Humility

Answer 4

An orientation to care for clients that is based on self-reflexivity, and self awareness, valuing client’s expertise on the social and cultural context of their lives, openness to establishing power-balanced relationships , and a lifelong dedication to learning

Question 5

Intentionality

Answer 5

Being in the moment and responding flexibly to the ever-changing situations and needs of the clients

Question 6

Culture Intentionality

Answer 6

acting with a sense of capability and flexibly deciding from among a range of alternative actions. The culturally intentional individual has more than one action, thought, or behavior to choose from in responding to changing life situations and diverse clients. The culturally intentional counselor or therapist remembers a basic rule of helping: If a helping lead or skill doesn’t work—try another approach!

Question 7

Multiculturalism

Answer 7

Many cultures

Question 8

Resilience

Answer 8

is a short-and long-term goal of effective counseling and psychotherapy. We seek to help clients “bounce back” and recover when they encounter serious life challenges, including the traumatic.

Question 9

Counseling’s ultimate goal is to teach self-care and self-healing

Answer 9

the capacity to use what is learned in counseling to resolve other issues in the future. This is the ultimate demonstration of achieved resiliency.

Question 10

Self-actualization

Answer 10

the curative force in psychotherapy—humans’ tendency to actualize themselves, to become their potentialities . . . to express and activate all the capacities of the organism/intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately of what is the organism itself. . . . self-actualization is growth-motivated rather than deficiency-motivated.

Question 11

Microskills

Answer 11

specific communication skills that provide ways for you to reach many types of clients. They will clarify the “how” of all theories of counseling and therapy

Question 12

Microskills Hierarchy

Answer 12

summarizes the successive steps of intentional counseling and psychotherapy. The skills rest on a base of ethics, multiculturalism, social justice and advocacy competencies, neuroscience, positive psychology, and resilience

Question 13

Executive Function

Answer 13

a set of mental skills that include working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control

Question 14

Emotional Regulation

Answer 14

Emotional regulation is actually a simple mental and behavioral process that many of us already do, consciously and unconsciously. For example, many people take walks or listen to music to calm down, or stifle a laugh when something unintentionally funny happens in a serious setting. Emotional regulation can also involve the emotions of other people, such as soothing an over-excited child or softening criticism of someone known to be sensitive

Question 15

The prefontal cortex is key to executive functioning and emotion regulation AND

Answer 15

The limbic system, deep in the brain, is particularly important in emotional areas and emotional regulation. Here you see the thalamus, anterior cingulate, hypothalamus, amygdala, pituitary, adrenals, and hippocampus.

Question 16

Ethics and Responsibility

Answer 16

1) Maintain confidentiality
2) Recognize your limitations
3) Seek consultation
4) Be aware of individual and cultural differences
5) Remember the golden rule and the platinum rule
6) Give special attention to the ethical treatment of children and their rights

Question 17

Multicultural and social justice competencies seasoned with humility are imperative in the counseling and psychotherapeutic process

Question 18

Individualism

Answer 18

Doctrine the the interests of the individual are are ought to be ethically paramount/ the conception that all rights, values, and duties originate from the individual

Question 19

Community

Answer 19

A group of people living in the same place or having a specific characteristic in common/A feeling of fellowship with others as a result of common attitudes, interests, and goals

Question 20

Community-based Research

Answer 20

Seeks to empower communities and effect policy changes. It seeks to democratize knowledge by recognizing and valuing the unique strengths and perspectives of all members involved in the research process

Question 21

Privilege

Answer 21

Is power given to people through cultural assumptions and stereotypes as well as unawareness and disinterest in past oppression

Question 22

Whether you agree or not with your client, ethics demands you respect their worldview, uniqueness, and individuality.

Question 23

When trauma occurs, the following typically occurs in the brain

Answer 23

1. The thinking center is underactivated (pre-frontal cortex, PFC). 2. Emotion regulation is underactivated (anterior cingulate cortex, ACC). 3. The fear center is overactivated (amygdala)

Question 24

Positive psychology’s central aim is to encourage and develop optimism and resilience.

Answer 24

Optimism is a key dimension of resilience and the ability to recover and learn from one’s difficulties and challenges.

Encouraging and teaching clients to becoming fully engaged in life is basic to positive
psychology.

Question 25

The RESPECTFUL Model

Answer 25

lists 10 key multicultural dimensions, thus showing that cultural
issues will inevitably be part of the interviewing and client relationship. Privilege is close related to race and ethnicity. We need to be aware that being White, male, and economically advantaged often puts a person in a privileged group. The interviewer needs to be client cen-tered rather than directed by “politically correct” terminology. This is an issue of respect, and clients need to say what is comfortable and appropriate for them.