Test 1 Flashcards
Introspection
analyzation of yourself- self reflection
Why is too much introspection bad?
looking at yourself in your own flawed perception
How do you find out who you are?
Through interactions with other people, especially different people
What 3 things make a counselor
- Skills
- Knowledge
- Awareness (self/other)
- Dunning-Kruger effect
occurs when a person’s lack of knowledge and still in a certain area causes them to overestimate their own competence
Common factors of counselors
acceptance, genuineness, wellness perception, cultural competence, “it” factor, and empathy
acceptance
- Who are we to judge other people?
you look past the sin, in order to commune with the sinner
Genuineness
o Ability to be authentic, open, and in touch with their feelings
o Mutual trust in client and counselor
o NOT your job to make them comfortable
o Countertransference
unconscious transferring of thoughts, feelings, and attitudes onto the client by the therapist
Wellness perspective
o Willing to look at your own problems in your own life
o People who had problems and worked to fix them are some of the best counselors
Cultural competence
o Different styles of communication between cultures could be seen differently and may not feel genuine
o Different races and cultures communicate differently
“It” factor
o All great counselors have their own it factor
o Ex. making people laugh, listening, empathy, etc.
- Assimilation
willing to change information to fit into schema
- Accommodation
willing to change schema to fit information
Assimilation is difficult because…
o Trying to avoid acceptance and change
o Change = Loss = pain
Ad hominem
attacks an individual’s characteristics rather than a person’s position on an issue
Defense mechanism
walls put up around the ego to protect you ALWAYS formed because of anxiety
Denial
denying reality (“I didn’t drink all that”)
Rationalization
justification and excuses that are BS (“It’s not even that much”)
o “It’s not that I don’t like black men, I just don’t like men”
