Becoming a Counselor
The First Meeting
Assessment
Treatment Planning
Mental Status Exam
100
What master degrees were recently licensed in NYS?
What is Mental Health Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Creative Arts Therapist, Licensed Psychanalyst
100
Usually referred by a third party and unmotivated to seek help.
What is a reluctant client.
100
The first step in the couseling process
What is establish a relationship?
100
In the treatment plan, explains and measures what the client will do.
What is a measureable objective?
100
Rate, tone, volume, spontaneity, word finding problems
What is speech assessment?
200
What the Standards of Practice are based on
What is the Code of Ethics
200
Court decision that counselors need to take reasonable action to help protect potential victims from dangerous clients
What is Tarasoff v. Board of Regeants of the University of California (Duty to Warn)
200
Help client with the most important issues, provides information for goals planning, used to diagnose, helps clients explore problems, uncovers potential harm to self or others are examples.
What is the imporance of Assessment?
200
In a treatment plan, explains what the therapist will do.
What is the intervention?
200
Description by the client of their feelings.
What is mood?
300
Outlines the client's right to privacy in a counselor-client relationship
What is confidentiality?
300
Informing clients of their rights to help them understand what they are getting into when they engage in counseling.
What is informed consent?
300
Standardized tests, mental status exam, structured or unstructured interviews, inventories.
What are examples of assessment methods?
300
Coordinates treatment between multiple providers and their patients; defines and measures interventions in patient care; provides a measure for a patient's progress in treatment.
What are examples of why a treatment plan is necessary?
300
Clinican's observation of a client's mood.
What is affect?
400
The committee responsible for unethical behavior of ACA members.
What is the ACA Ethics Committee?
400
Contracts prepared by counselors and signed by clients that formalize the informed consent process.
What is a disclosure statement?
400
Seriously and Persistantly Mentally Ill (in adults)
What is SPMI in New York State
400
Something a client can use or contribute toward meeting his/her goals
What are the client's strengths?
400
Thoughts or impulses that don't make sense, such as being contaminated by germs.
What are obsessions?
500
When counselors are held legally negligible or guilty of intentional infliction of distress.
What is malpractice?
500
Counselors practice only within the boundaries of their education, training, supervised experience, state and national professional credentials, and appropriate experiences.
What is professional competence.
500
Causes or origin of a condition
What is etiology?
500
The timeframe for updating treatment plans under OMH regulations.
What is every 90 days.
500
Oriented X 3
What is oriented to person, place and time
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