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Units 5 - 8 Flashcards

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1
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can be thought of as the motivation to change

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initiative

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what clients bring to the counselling relationship that influences how counsellor and client perceive one another; issue of first impression

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client qualities

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requires a specific, limited response, such as yes or no, and often begins with the word is, do, or are

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closed-ended question

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client is simply told what he or she is doing, e.g., being inconsistent

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confrontation

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5
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personal and professional qualities that facilitate a helping relationship

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counsellor qualities

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dumb, unintelligent, and disadvantaged

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DUDs

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a counsellor’s ability to identify with and share the client’s expression of emotions, such as sadness and happiness

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empathy

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the degree to which a counsellor is perceived as knowledgeable and informed about his or her specialty

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expertness

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homely, old, unintelligent, nonverbal, and disadvantage

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HOUNDs

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a disguised form of advice giving

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lecturing

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encourages the client to expand or elaborate; typically begins with what, how, or could

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open-ended question

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a question that usually begins with who, what, where, or how; requires more than a one- or two-word response

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probe

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one who has been referred by a third party and who is frequently unmotivated to seek help

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reluctant client

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unwilling, unready, or opposed to change

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resistant client

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similar to restatement, but deals with both verbal and nonverbal expression

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reflection of feelings

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a simple mirror response that lets the client know that the counsellor is actively listening

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restatement

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acronym for five nonverbal skills involved in initial attending:
Sit squarely,
Open posture,
Lean towards the client, 
Eye contact, 
Relax
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SOLER

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18
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a joint understanding between the counsellor and client regarding the characteristics, conditions, procedures, and parameters of counselling

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structure

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paraphrasing a number of feelings that the client has conveyed

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summary of feelings

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young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, and successful

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YAVIS

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21
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assess general mental ability or stable intellectual capacity for reasoning and applying knowledge

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ability tests

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assess learning, acquired capabilities, or developed skills; often called proficiency tests

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achievement tests

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concerned primarily with prediction of a person’s future performance

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aptitude tests

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a multifaceted and integrated process reflecting various aspects of an individual

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assessment

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a model that specifically describes observable behaviour

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behavioural diagnostic model

26
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a model that assesses current functioning according to terms of stage- or age-related norms

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developmental diagnostic model

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describes client symptoms and behaviour in terms of their adaptive functions; focuses primarily on levels and stages of present functioning

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developmentally-based diagnosis

28
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describes specific behaviours in meaningful, illustrative, and individualized language to help in both understanding the concerns to be addressed and helping the client understand self-defeating patterns

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functional behavioural labelling

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an attempt to develop a profile of a person’s career interest areas through a series of questions about preferences, jobs, hobbies, etc.

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interest inventories

30
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tests that do not ensure uniformity of measurement and that tend to be subjective and take a more general and diverse approach to gathering information

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nonstandardized measures

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use of an assessor’s eyes, ears, intuition, and all senses to observe carefully what the client is experiencing and communicating

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observational assessment

32
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designed to gather information on a person’s preferences, attitudes, personality patterns, and/or problems

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personality inventories

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minimizes the use of labels; emphasizes externally observable phenomena rather than their underlying nature or origin

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phenomenological diagnostic model

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a test administered verbally or in written form that is useful in (more) accurately determining what a person is thinking and feeling, and to what degree

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rating scale

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reflects not only what clients state overtly but also what they imply or state incompletely

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advanced empathy

36
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focuses on a client’s feelings

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affective response

37
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focuses on actions

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behavioural response

38
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covers the same ground or issues repeatedly

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circular counselling

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focuses on the client’s thoughts

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cognitive response

40
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an invitational challenge to the client to examine, modify, or control an aspect of behaviour that is currently nonexistent or improperly used

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confrontation

41
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the counsellor’s projected emotional reaction to or behaviour toward the client

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countertransference

42
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imagining the performance conditions and/or reflecting on the desired approach of a behaviour

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covert rehearsal

43
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the counsellor becomes emotionally removed from the client, projecting behaviours such as rejection or hostility

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disidentification

44
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seeing things in only one way or from only one perspective [

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functional fixity

45
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involves giving a distinct and unexpected response to a question or situation that requires both sensitivity and timing

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humour

46
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involves a counsellor’s understanding and communication of what is going on between the counsellor and client

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immediacy

47
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certain deliberate behaviours in which counsellors engage for the benefit of their clients, such as silence, acceptance, paraphrasing, and persuasion

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leading

48
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avoiding confrontation of the client’s behaviour, resulting in the counsellor’s being less effective

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MUM effect

49
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the counsellor loses his or her ability to remain emotionally distant from the client

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overidentification

50
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the client verbalizes or acts out what he or she is going to do

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overt rehearsal

51
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communicates a basic understanding of the client’s feelings and the experiences and behaviours underlying these feelings

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primary empathy

52
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changing the client’s perceptions in such a way as to offer another probable and positive viewpoint or perspective on a situation

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reframing

53
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counsellor consciously and intentionally shares information about his or her life outside of the counselling relationship with the client

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self-disclosure

54
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the client’s projection of past or present feelings, attitudes, or desires onto the counsellor

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transference

55
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client asks for more time at the end of a session and/or more sessions once the counselling goal has been reached

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client resistance to termination

56
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counsellor ends sessions due to reasons such as illness, need for referral, countertransference issues, etc

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counsellor-initiated termination

57
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counsellor has difficulty letting go once the counselling relationship has come or should come to an end

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counsellor resistance to termination

58
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a gradual decrease in the unnatural structures developed to create personal changes

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fading

59
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client learns effective coping, prevention, and problem-solving strategies, whereby the counselling relationship is no longer needed

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generalization

60
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client terminates before the agreed-upon time or against the counsellor’s recommendation

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premature termination

61
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re-examining all phases of the therapeutic process to determine whether there may be improperly defined goals or an inappropriate strategy in place

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recycling

62
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the decision to stop counselling; often associated with loss, because it signals that something is finished [

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termination

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