NCE Flashcards
Narrative Therapy
Therapy in which the counselor helps the client separate themselves from their problems. Allowing externalizing issues rather internalizing, and becoming experts of their own lives without assigning blame or fault. (Michael White & David Epston)
Empathy
The ability to take the viewpoint of others and understand how they are feeling in a given situation.
General Systems Theory
Seeing individuals as seeking balance within their systems or groups, which can be attained only if the expectations, needs, desires, and actions of each person within all systems are considered; issues result from systemic breakdowns rather than the deficiency of one person
Structural Family Therapy
A method of psychotherapy which addresses problems within a family by looking at the family unit structure and improving family member interactions. (Salvador Minuchin)
Cognitive-Behavioral Family Counseling
A highly structured treatment targeted on symptom relief; it focuses on behaviors and cognitions, pulling from operant conditioning, classical conditioning, and modeling, or social learning theory.
Genuineness
Willingness of the therapist to be authentic, open, and honest within the helping relationship.
Therapeutic Alliance
the cooperative relationship between a healthcare professional and a client.
Group Therapy
Therapy conducted by a well-trained leader that focuses on deep-seated, long-term issues; its goal is remediation of severe pathology and personality reconstruction
Psychodynamic Family Therapy
Therapy that emphasizes the unconscious processes and unresolved problems of the parents’ families of origin; these problems are believed to be projected onto the family.
Self-actualization
The realization of one’s full potential; also, the final stage in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Individual Psychology
An approach developed by Alfred Adler that emphasizes the importance of relationships and being connected to others and helps the patient overcome feelings of inferiority; also referred to as Adlerian Therapy.
Humanistic Perspective
An approach that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans from a holistic point of view, especially their capacity for free will and potential for personal growth.
Solution-Focused Family Therapy
A pragmatic, future-oriented approach that assumes that clients can change quickly and focuses on solutions and the use of problem-free language to discuss the family structure
Counseling Group
A collection of clients with similar issues or concerns who meet with one or more therapists to discuss those issues and to exchange information and solutions regarding those issues.
Multigenerational Family Therapy
This model assumes that ways of relating within a family are passed down, including loyalties, indebtedness, and entitlements. (Murray Bowen)
Psychoeducational Groups
These groups provide preventative education about substance abuse and related behaviors and consequences. Once known as “guidance groups”.
Social Constructionism
The theory that individuals develop knowledge of the world in a social context, and that much of what is perceived as reality, such as understanding of race, class, gender, and disability, depends on shared assumptions.
Task Groups
Groups designed to accomplish identified work goals; e.g., committees, task forces, social action groups, study circles and learning groups.
Narrative Family Therapy
A type of narrative therapy; its goal is to re-create how the family comes to understand itself by having family members deconstruct the past narrative and construct new narratives that are healthier and more functional.
Self-Help Groups
Groups composed of individuals who meet on a regular basis to help one another cope with a life problem; the purpose of these groups is both educational and affirmational; groups usually focus on specific issues (e.g., alcohol abuse or eating disorders).
Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)
A theory founded on three variables: 1) one’s personal beliefs about their capabilities to perform particular tasks, 2) outcome expectations, 3) and personal goals, that is aimed at explaining aspects of career development.
Person-centered Counseling
Also called client-centered therapy; a form of psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers that requires the counselor be empathetic, genuine, and nonjudgmental; the therapy is based on the belief that every human being strives for and has the capacity to fulfill his or her own potential.
Civil Rights Act Title VII
Prohibits an employer to discriminate against any individual because of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), or religion; it also protects employees involved in any discrimination complaint-related action against the employer from retaliation.
Constructivist Career Counseling
A postmodern approach which encourages individuals to make meaning out of the world of work as reflected in their social, psychological, historical, and cultural relationships and experiences.
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972
States that “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, in be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance”.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
A law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government’ programs and services.
Carl Perkins Act
Legislation designed to increase the quality of technical education in the United States; the act provides $1.2 billion in federal support for career and technical education programs in all 50 states.
Feminist Therapy
A type of therapy which suggests that women have unique concerns and are often devalued as a function of male-dominated society.
Gender-Aware Therapy
A type of therapy in which gender is central to the therapeutic process; this treatment views problems within a social context and encourages counselors to actively address gender injustices.
Social Policy
The guidelines, principles, legislation, and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Law that requires access to programs and activities that are funded by Federal agencies and to Federal employment.
