Counseling Flashcards
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4 Primary Categories of Counseling
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- Psychodynamic Approaches
- psychoanalysis, play therapy, Jungian anal
- kids - play, mutual story-telling, bibliotherapy, art interpretation
- Human-Centered Approaches
- Rogers person-centered, existential, gestalt
- Action Therapies (Learning-Centered)
- Rational-emotive behavioral therapy, Beck’s cognitve, behavior, cognitive-behavioral
- Systems Approaches
- feminist therapy, family therapy
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Roger’s Person Centered Therapy
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- unconditional postive regard
- genuineness, empathic understanding
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Gestalt therapy
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- whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- personality requires healthy boundaries
- the present is more important than the past
- therapy process is more important than the content
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Existential therapy
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- capacity for self-awareness
- freedom & responsibility
- strive for identity and relation to others
- search for meaning in life
- anxiety as a living condition
- awareness of death
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Behavioral counseling
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- acquistion/maintenence of abnormal behavior is the same as acquisition/maintenence of normal behavior
- present determinants of behavior are more important than the past
- commitment to the scientific approach
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Rational-emotive behavioral therapy
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- people have the capacity to think rationally, but often don’t
- irrational thinking is often exacertbated by family/religion/culture
- perceptions distorted by irrational beliefs
- warm therapeutic relationship is either necessary or sufficient to cause client change
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Goals of Counseling
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- facilitating change
- improving relationships
- increasing coping and social effectiveness
- learn decision-making processes
- self-actualization - enhancing human potential
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Reflecting Skills
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- paraphrasing
- reflecting feelings
- reflecting meaning
- summarizing
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Therapeutic Building Blocks
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- Invitational/nonverbal skills
- reflecting skills
- challenging skills
- goal-setting skills
- solution skills
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Challenging Skills
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- giving feedback - supportive, it is necessary
- confrontation
- have to earn the right to do this
- intros tension, client will want to reduce tension
- should do this about misinformation
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Role of the Leader in Group Counseling
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- set boundaries
- nondefensiveness
- basic counseling skills
- facilitating - safe climate, reinfor. particip.
- linking - P2P communication, encourage interaction
- block inappropriate interactions
- recognize limitations of yourself
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Counseling Kids with ED
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- Detect and discuss feelings
- teach how to manage these feelings
- consistency and limit setting are important
- establish expectations
- provide choices
- use behavioral contracting and goal setting
- REBT has been used successfully to increase rational thinking and appr. social behaviors
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Counseling Kids with LD
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- build rapport and help student ID specific prob
- collaboratively consider what has been tried, what has worked, and new possible soluations
- counselor helps the student decide on a specific concrete, measureable, and attainable goal
- generate a specific task to help student reach goal
- enhance social skills
- help overcome sense of failure
- promote postive attitude toward learning
- CBT is suggested
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Counseling Kids with ADHD
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- Behavioral techniques work well with these kids
- structure envirionment
- limit stimuli
- follow consistent schedule
- clear rules, expectations, and consequences
- group counseling - teach effective social skills
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Counseling Kids with ID
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- Goals
- improving social interactions
- enhancing social/adaptive skills
- developing interpersonal relationships
- promoting a positive self-image
- peer feedback and modeling
- group counseling
- need to be clear and concise in comm.
- limit the number of directions
- display respect
- provide encouragement
