Counseling Skills
The capacity to understand and feel the expression of others
What is empathy?
Descriptors: Body habitus, eye contact, interpersonal style, style of dress
What is Behavior and Appearance?
This tool is used to measure self harm risk
What is the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale?
Uncooperative, defiant, and hostile toward peers, parents, teachers, and other authority figure
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
collaborative conversation to strengthen a person's own motivation for and commitment
What is Motivational Interviewing?
Also known as listening with all senses
What is active listening?
Descriptors: Person, Time, Place
What is orientation?
This tool is a validated measure across the country to screen depression
What is the PHQ 9?
Brain development and brain activity that affect attention, the ability to sit still, and self-control.
What is ADHD?
child group intervention that is aimed at relieving symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, depression, and general anxiety
What is CBITS?
Questions that cannot be answered with a Yes or No
What are open ended questions?
Descriptors: Normal in tone, volume and quantity
What is speech?
This tool was cut down from 35 questions and has three subscales
What is the PSC 17?
Fear triggers many split-second changes in the body to help defend against danger or to avoid it.
What is PTSD?
term that describes the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping others
What is compassion fatigue?
Technique that shows complete acceptance for client
What is unconditional positive regard?
Descriptor: How do they appear to you?
What is affect?
This instrument measures anxiety
What is the GAD 7?
Frequent angry or aggressive outbursts combined with an angry or irritable mood on days when outbursts do not occur
What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
Written record of an interaction with a client
What is a process recording?
Can convey humility, humanity and understanding
What is therapist self disclosure?
Descriptor: What do they feel?
What is mood?
This tool measures symptom assessment and impairment usually filled out by teachers
What is the Vanderbilt Scale?
Intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations.
What is anxiety?
a process of change resulting from empathetic engagement with trauma survivors
What is vicarious trauma?