Theory and Practice
A counseling approach that believes young clients already possess the strength, knowledge, and resources to overcome struggles and achieve their goals.
non-directive play therapy
Drawing, painting, sketching, coloring, decorating, crafting, scrapbooking and other activities comprise these child interventions
Art and creative techniques
The failure of caregivers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child.
Neglect
Serious and potentially life-threatening diagnosis characterized by dietary restrictions that lead to significant low body weight.
Anorexia nervosa
an ethical concept that is founded on the idea of privacy as applied in the context of professional relationships.
Confidentiality
A counselor's presence, or absolute engagement and full attention to youth, but is a necessary element to convey genuineness, warmth, acceptance, and empathy.
Active Listening
Document developed for youth in need of special education provisions.
Individualized Education Plans (IEP's)
A creative or structured way of sharing a trauma history, experiences, and reflections in therapy.
Trauma Narrative
identifying one diagnosis from another.
Differential diagnosis
A detailed explanation of the treatment model, interventions, and counselor expectations before someone begins treatment.
Informed Consent
A subset of play therapy that uses miniatures to represent the world. This can be used with multiple models.
Sandplay/ Sand Tray
Youth who struggle with depression and self-harm are at higher risk for this type of behavior.
suicide attempts
Occurs continually and pervasively, potentially occurring over a given period of time within a specific context. Often associated with multiple traumatic events.
Complex Trauma
Intense, severe shifts in affect, energy, activity, and ability to complete day to day tasks. Often associated with major depressive episodes.
Bipolar I Disorder
A relationship that is characterized by the counselor and client knowing each other outside of therapy.
Multiple or Dual Relationship
Therapy approach where the child is allowed to organically play while parents, siblings, and important family are present.
Filial therapy
Specific, reasonable, achievable, measurable, and time-limited.
SMART goals
Strategies to help youth stabilize, be present, and feel safe when triggering situations arise.
Grounding techniques
Youth experience intrusive, distressing, thoughts about a perceived flaw in their physical appearance.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Support that allows counselors to learn and develop from a trained and approved professional, for the purpose of staffing and navigating ethical and clinical challenges.
Supervision
A counselor's ability to understand, without judgment, a youth from his or her unique perspective and point of view and accept that the youth is functioning as well as possible with the resources they have.
Unconditional positive regard
Collaborative, comprehensive care coordination that meets the health care needs of an individual or family- it is one of the most essential counseling components when working with youth with disabilities.
Case Management
The first and main priority when assessing a child who has experienced abuse or neglect.
Safety
A birth defect resulting from prenatal drug or alcohol exposure.
alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder ARND (fetal alcohol syndrome)
Need to know information about a student for the purpose of completing tasks for education, job, student discipline, or to provide a benefit for a service such as counseling.
Legitimate educational interest