Counseling Theories
This theory emphasizes the importance of a person's self-concept in determining their behavior.
What is Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Theory?
This ethical principle requires counselors to maintain confidentiality unless there's a clear and imminent danger to the client or others.
What is the principle of Confidentiality?
This type of assessment involves gathering information about a client's presenting problems, symptoms, and history.
What is Clinical Assessment or intake and assessment?
This counseling skill involves restating a client's message in your own words to convey understanding.
What is Reflective Listening?
This type of therapy involves working with couples to improve communication and resolve conflicts.
What is Couples Therapy?
According to this theory, maladaptive behaviors are learned and can be unlearned through behavioral techniques.
What is Behaviorism?
This ethical dilemma occurs when a counselor must decide whether to breach confidentiality to prevent harm to the client or others.
What is the Tarasoff dilemma?
This assessment tool measures the severity of psychological symptoms and is commonly used in diagnosing mental disorders.
What is the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)?
This skill involves conveying acceptance, understanding, and empathy toward the client's experiences.
What is Empathy?
This type of counseling focuses on helping individuals cope with life transitions, grief, and loss.
What is Bereavement Counseling?
This theory focuses on the influence of unconscious processes on behavior and personality.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory?
This ethical principle emphasizes the importance of respecting clients' autonomy and self-determination.
What is the principle of Autonomy?
This assessment technique involves observing a client's behavior in their natural environment.
What is Behavioral Observation?
This skill involves asking open-ended questions to encourage clients to elaborate on their thoughts and feelings.
What are Open-Ended Questions?
This type of counseling involves working with families to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen relationships.
What is Family Therapy?
According to this theory, individuals seek meaning and purpose in life, and therapy aims to explore existential concerns.
What is Existential Therapy?
This ethical code requires counselors to have clients sign a consent form from clients before initiating therapy.
What is the principle of Informed Consent?
This type of assessment examines a client's cognitive processes, including thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions.
What is Cognitive Assessment?
This skill involves summarizing and highlighting key points from the client's discussion to clarify understanding.
What is Summarization?
This term refers to a counselor's responsibility to provide services that are culturally competent and sensitive to clients' diverse backgrounds.
What is Cultural Competence?
This theory emphasizes the role of cognition in shaping behavior and emotions.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This ethical issue involves maintaining professional boundaries and avoiding dual relationships with clients.
What is the issue of Boundaries and Dual Relationships?
This assessment tool measures personality traits and psychopathology using a series of true/false items.
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
This skill involves exploring discrepancies between a client's current behavior and their values or goals.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This professional organization sets ethical standards and guidelines for counselors in the United States.
What is the American Counseling Association (ACA)?