Counseling Skills & Techniques
Practicum Theory & Ethics (General)
Teletherapy & Mandated Reporting
Strengths-Based DSM-5 Diagnosis:
Power & Privilege in Psychotherapy
Client Termination
& Coping
& Coping
100
Name the three core conditions for a therapeutic relationship as outlined by Carl Rogers.
What are Congruence (Genuineness), Unconditional Positive Regard, and Empathy?
100
What does the acronym HIPAA stand for regarding the protection of client information?
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
100
When conducting a risk assessment with a client like Sofia over teletherapy, what critical piece of data must the counselor verify at the beginning of every session?
The client's exact physical location/address (in case emergency services or local child protective interventions are required).
100
According to Dr. Castro, what is the primary limitation of utilizing the traditional DSM-5 medical model without a strengths-based framework?
It over-emphasizes deficits, pathology, and dysfunction while ignoring a client's inherent resilience and environmental resources.
100
Psychologist Malin Fors outlines four core relational configurations in therapy based on the ACA's MSJCC (societal power). Name them.
What are similarity of privilege, privilege favoring the therapist, privilege favoring the patient, and similarity of nonprivilege?
100
What does "therapy termination" mean in a clinical context?
The planned, intentional ending of the psychotherapy relationship.
200
What type of questions does a counselor use that cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no"?
What are open-ended questions?
200
What is the legal and ethical rule of thumb when a minor client threatens self-harm or harm to others?
What is breaching confidentiality to ensure client safety or the duty to warn/protect?
200
What is the LEGAL standard of proof required for a counselor to file a mandated child abuse report after a teletherapy session?
What is reasonable suspicion? (Absolute proof is not required, only a reasonable basis to suspect abuse or neglect).
200
In the clinical demonstration with Maria, how does a strengths-based clinician shift the diagnostic intake process away from a cold "checklist"?
By actively exploring how Maria’s cultural wealth, coping history, & community resources counteract her diagnostic symptoms in collaborative dialogue.
200
In the matrix of relative privilege, what is a primary clinical risk when a therapist and client share a "similarity of privilege"?
The risk of an unexamined, comfortable 'blind spot' where both ignore systemic inequities or assume shared values without exploring differences.
200
Name 4 Action Tasks a client can be encouraged to use in the Action Stage (and after counseling ends to maintain progress).
What are relaxation techniques (deep breathing/mindfulness), behavioral change (reinforcements, weekly charting), behavioral rehearsal (journaling, practicing "I" statements), and Decision Making (adjusting pro-con lists, weighting values of a decision) support system?
300
This non-verbal skill involves leaning forward, maintaining appropriate eye contact, and keeping an open posture.
What is "attending" behavior?
300
This counseling theory involves the use of scaling, asking for exceptions, and solutions that involve client strengths: the #1 theory in use in schools today.
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
300
If a client drops a vague or alarming hint about physical abuse on screen, what is the therapist's immediate clinical step before executing a report?
Direct risk assessment and clinical clarification to gather necessary details about safety and immediacy of harm.
300
When diagnosing a client like Maria, what specific section or tools within the DSM-5 can a counselor utilize to systematically integrate cultural and environmental strengths?
What is the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) (or selecting Z-codes/V-codes) to document psychosocial stressors.
300
When privilege favors the therapist, how should counselor's own self-disclosure be handled?
With heightened clinical sensitivity; therapist must acknowledge their own power to avoid triggering internalized oppression or a dynamic of 'compliance'.
300
What is the name of the 6-Step Plan for every clinician to use if suicide risk is determined to be high (e.g. above a "7" on 1-10 scale)?
The Stanley Brown Safety Plan.
400
This term refers to the counselor's ability to address the "here and now" aspects of the client-counselor relationship during a session.
What is immediacy?
400
Gathering life history data through early recollections, family constellations and addressing "Unfinished Business" are primary techniques in this counseling theory.
What is Adlerian Psychology (or "Individual Psychology - IP)?
400
Legally, if a supervisor disagrees with your assessment of risk regarding Sofia, who holds the ultimate legal liability to ensure the mandated report is filed?
The individual clinician. (Mandated reporting is an individual legal obligation that cannot be vetoed by a supervisor).
400
Complete the clinical philosophy highlighted by Dr. Castro: Diagnosis should never be isolated from __________; instead, clients and counselors should map strengths and take active roles in goals and therapuetic interventions.
What is treatment (or interventions)?
400
What term describes the invisible, societal advantages that inevitably enter the counseling room and dictate the implicit level of safety or entitlement a client feels?
What is social privilege (or systemic power)?
400
What is the official national helpline someone can reach out to in a mental health crisis or suicidal ideation post-termination?
What is 988? (The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or the Crisis Text Line?
