Counseling Psychology
Counseling psychologists typically focus on this about their clients.
What are strengths?
Age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and religion are all aspect of a client's ______.
What is cultural identity?
Counseling psychologists who focus on psychological practice with children and their families.
What is pediatric counseling psychologist?
Term that refers to the use of multiple theories depending on the needs of the client's concerns.
What is integrative or eclectic?
Attending, active listening, minimal encouragers, reflecting feelings, and open-ended questions are examples of these skills.
What are microskills?
Something a doctoral level counseling psychologist can do that a masters level counselor may not be able to.
What is psychological assessment?
A theory that originally attempted to explain the impact of discrimination of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. It proposes that stigmatized social status puts people at a greater risk of negative health outcomes.
Theory proposed by Bronfenbrenner emphasized the impact of environment on human development.
What is Ecological Systems Theory?
Therapeutic approach that helps clients modify cognitions, behaviors, and emotions.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Getting the "gist" of what a client has said. This skill can be used throughout a session or at the end of a session.
What is summarizing?
Compared to a clinical psychologist, a counseling psychologist may put greater emphasis on this than pathology.
What is the person or the client?
Seemingly small, indirect, and hard to identify markers of rejection or discrimination.
What are microaggressions?
Model of human development that includes stages such as Trust vs. Mistrust (0-18 months), Industry vs. Inferiority (6-11 years), and Intimacy vs. Isolation (young adulthood).
What is Erikson's Psychosocial Model?
Theory that emphasizes a client's subconscious, defense mechanisms, and transference/countertransference.
What are empirically supported treatments?
Guidance and testing of this kind had a great influence on the development of counseling psychology as a field.
What is vocational?
What are microaffirmations?
Theory of career development that focuses on person-environment fit.
What is trait and factor theory?
Approach to therapy that emphasizes self-knowledge and acceptance. May help clients face "givens" of existence such as death, meaning, isolation, and freedom.
What is Existential Therapy?
This refers to similarities across therapies that contribute to client outcomes.
What are common factors?
A myth of this type of psychology is that it encourages psychologists to ignore issues in their client's lives.
What is Positive Psychology?
A newer framework for working with diverse populations that places a greater emphasis on the counseling psychologist's way of being with clients.
What is multicultural orientation?
Career development theory that emphasizes the unpredictability of life.
What is Chaos Theory of Careers?
Universality and Altruism and examples of therapeutic factors in this type of therapy.
What is group therapy?
In the contextual model, this refers to the client and therapist being genuine with each other and perceiving the other in ways that are beneficial.
What is Pathway One or The Real Relationship?