Counseling Skills
A counseling skill that communicates understanding of a client's emotional experience rather than simply repeating what they said.
What is a reflection of feeling?
The ethical principle requiring counselors to promote the well-being of their clients.
What is beneficence?
A document that identifies measurable goals, objectives, and interventions developed collaboratively with the client.
What is a treatment plan?
The counseling approach based on empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
The common experience of doubting one's competence despite evidence of ability.
What is imposter syndrome?
The counseling skill that condenses several minutes of conversation into the client's major thoughts, feelings, and themes.
What is summarizing?
The ethical principle requiring counselors to avoid causing harm.
What is nonmaleficence?
The portion of a progress note that describes how the client responded to interventions during the session.
What is the assessment (or client response section, depending on format)?
The theory that proposes emotions and behaviors are largely influenced by thoughts and beliefs.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
The professional relationship specifically designed to enhance clinical competence through guidance, feedback, and evaluation.
What is clinical supervision?
The intentional decision to allow space so the client can process thoughts or emotions without interruption.
What is therapeutic silence?
The process of seeking guidance from a supervisor or colleague when facing uncertainty in clinical practice.
What is consultation?
Documentation that describes observable behaviors rather than assumptions or conclusions.
What is objective documentation?
The counseling approach that emphasizes clients' strengths, exceptions, and preferred futures rather than problems.
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
The ongoing process of examining one's own thoughts, emotions, biases, and clinical decisions to improve counseling effectiveness.
What is self-reflection?
A counseling skill in which the therapist gently points out discrepancies between a client's words, behaviors, emotions, or goals.
What is confrontation?
A relationship that exists simultaneously with the counseling relationship and has the potential to impair objectivity.
What is a dual relationship?
The documentation principle requiring that every intervention recorded in a progress note directly relates to the client's treatment goals.
What is medically necessary documentation?
The CBT technique that involves examining evidence for and against automatic thoughts.
What is cognitive restructuring?
The collaborative relationship consistently identified as one of the strongest predictors of successful counseling outcomes.
What is the therapeutic alliance?
The tendency for beginning counselors to ask a rapid series of questions instead of facilitating exploration through reflections.
What is question stacking (question-answer trap)?
The ethical expectation that counselors recognize and work only within the boundaries of their education, training, and experience.
What is practicing within one's competence (boundaries of competence; scope of practice)?
Documentation completed as close to the counseling session as reasonably possible to ensure accuracy and continuity of care.
What is timely documentation?
The ACT concept describing the ability to remain present while choosing behaviors consistent with one's values.
What is psychological flexibility?
The ability to understand clients within the context of their culture, development, relationships, strengths, and presenting concerns in order to guide treatment.
What is case conceptualization?