The Counselor
Diversity
Dilemmas
Information Superhighway
Misc
100
being able to shed stereotyped roles and being a real person
What is an authentic counselor
100
Have a broad base of counseling techniques that can be employed with flexibility, consider the cultureal context of their clients in determining what interventions are appropriate, and examine their own assumptions about cultural values
What is a culturally competent counselor?
100
Learning how to interpret and apply ehtical codes to an ethical dilemma.
What is becoming an ethical practitioner?
100
Their therapists qualifications, the general goals of counseling, and the approximate length of the therapeutic process.
What is informed consent?
100
The humanistic approach that emphasizes the basic attitudes of the therapist as the core of the therapeutic process.
What is person-centered therapy?
200
Counselors have a sense of humor, feel alive and their choices are life-oriented, make mistakes and they are willing to admit them
What are the characteristics as a counselor as a therapeutic person
200
Depending entirely on their own internalized value assumptions about what is good for people with regard to culture
What is a culturally encapsulated counselor?
200
Most ethical codes say these relationships should be avoided whenever possible.
What is a dual relationship?
200
The therapist as a person is an integral part of successful treatment. The therapeutic relationship is an essential component, and both the therapy methods and the therapy relationship make contributions to treatment outcome.
What are the results of psychotherapy treatment outcome research?
200
True or False: Practioners are free to formulate any ethics they chose.
What is False?
300
Have an identity, a sense of humor, and a deep interest in people
What are traits of an effective counselor
300
Counselors avoid imposing their values, but they are likely to expose their values to their clients
What is the role of the counselor's values in therapy?
300
This is something that is limited under specific circumstances, is central to developing trust, and is both an ethical and legal issue.
What is confidentiality?
300
Related to multicultural counseling: using interventions that were developed in a different cultural context and counseling culturally differente clients by a therapist who has not been taught the necessary skills.
What are ethical issues related to multicultural counseling?
300
Most clinicians agree that the process of diagnosis is heavily influenced by these considerations.
What are cultural considerations?
400
To heal their own psychological wounds, to gain an experiential sense of what it is like to be a client, and to work through their own personal conflicts
What are reasons that a therapist should experience psychotherapy
400
A counselor is intent on directing their client toward his or her personal values.
What is value imposition
400
When a client poses a danger to themselves or others, when a child is the victim of rape, incest, or child abuse, or when the therapist determines that the client needs immediate involuntary hospitalization.
What is conditions when confidentiality must be breached?
400
When clinicians base their ethical decisions on what is best of their clients rather than the minimum standards of care.
What are positive ethics?
400
This is useful for evaluating a client's current level of functioning, forming a case conception, and involving the client as an active part of treatment.
What is assessment?
500
Becoming aware of the factors that reduce your vitality, dealing with factors that threaten to drain your energy, looking within yourself to determine what choices you are making to keep yourself alive
What are realistic tools for staying alive as a person and as a professional
500
The client and the therapist collaborate in co-constructing solutions to problems
What is effective psychotherapy?
500
When a client complains of physical symptoms, when facing an ethical problem, or when working with a client for an extended period of time and losing objectivity.
What are circumstances in which a therapist should consult with colleagues or specialists?
500
These are tailored to address specific problems and symptoms and are founded on empirical research.
What are evidence-based practices?
500
Ethical considerations for therapists delivering these types of treatments include the loss of focus on the individual client's concerns and pressure to provide brief treatments that may cause a conflict of interest in client care.
What are evidence-based practices?
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