Counseling Flashcards
_________________ has been defined as the process by which a therapist provides direct, reality-oriented feedback to a client regarding the client’s own thoughts, feelings or behavior
Therapeutic Confrontation
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The process of protecting oneself from anxiety, feelings of guilt, or undesirable thoughts.
Defense Analysis
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A skill that enables the social worker to seek specificity on what the client is thinking, feeling, and experiencing. Asking for examples, specifying the meaning of words (i.e., “I was loaded”), and identifying the frequency and duration of problems are ways to clarify the client’s message.
Clarification
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A skill that enables the social worker to go beyond the stated problem and begin to delve more deeply. Interpretation can provide the client with an alternative way of viewing the problem. Helps to: Get to underlying trends, patterns, and issues related to the problem.
Interpretation
________________________ is defined by humanistic psychologists to mean expressing empathy, support, and acceptance to someone, regardless of what they say or do.
Unconditional Positive Regard
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Insecure
“[It’s] defined by failures to build long-term relationships with others due to an inability to engage in physical and emotional intimacy,” says Peoples.
In childhood, you may have had strict or emotionally distant and absent caregivers.
Avoidant Attachment
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also known as ambivalent, or preoccupied — is another type of insecure attachment characterized by:
• fear of rejection • fear of abandonment • depending on a partner for validation and emotional regulation • codependency
This attachment style stems from inconsistent parenting that isn’t attuned to a child’s needs.
Anxious Attachment
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defined as having extremely inconsistent behavior and difficulty trusting others.
Combines anxious and avoidant
Disorganized Attachment
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is the result of feeling secure with your caregivers from childhood and being able to ask for reassurance or validation without punishment.
Secure Attachment
_______________ in therapy is the act of the client unknowingly transferring feelings about someone from their past onto the therapist.
Transference
______________________has been viewed as the therapist’s reaction to projections of the client onto the therapist. It has been defined as the redirection of a therapist’s feelings toward a patient and the emotional entanglement that can occur with a patient
Countertransference
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a defense mechanism people subconsciously employ in order to cope with difficult feelings or emotions.
Projection
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this type of counseling involves building strong therapist–client alliances.
The goal is to aid clients in developing the psychological tools needed to deal with complicated feelings and situations
Psychodynamic Counseling
____________________is a diagnosis-focused approach in which the client’s disorder is regarded as a medical illness that requires intervention (Markowitz & Weissman, 2004).
Interpersonal Counseling
____________________________is based on the assumption that individuals already possess the qualities needed to flourish. This approach encourages curiosity
, intuition, creativity, humility, empathy, and altruism
Humanistic Counseling
