Counseling Specialty Areas
This counseling specialty area is primarily concerned with treating substance use disorders.
What is Addiction Counseling?
This association of mental health professionals opposed licensure for master's level therapist and the counseling profession in general.
What is the American Psychological Association?
Which person is most associated with the foundation of the counseling profession?
Who is Carl Rogers?
This is defined as, "cognitive generalizations about the self, derived from past experience, that organize and guide the processing of self-related information contained in the individual's social experiences."
What is self-schema?
This theorist created the idea of ego defense mechanisms.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This counseling specialty area uses counseling techniques to assist people to explore vocational possibilities.
What is Career Counseling?
This is the primary association for counselors.
Psychiatry became a profession primarily due to the efforts of this group of professionals?
Who are asylum superintendents?
Also acceptable (Who are neurologists?)
These are three of the five stages of the transtheoretical model.
What are precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance?
This type of therapy is most associated with the contingencies of learning.
What is behavior therapy?
This counseling specialty area would be the most likely to work with families.
What is Couple and Family Counseling?
Counseling grow from a fusion of these two academic areas.
What are psychology and education?
In what year did Virginia become the first state to license counselors?
What is 1974?
The theoretical model associated with Urie Bronfenbrenner.
What is the ecological model?
Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck are most associated with this group of counseling theories.
What is cognitive (or cognitive-behavioral) therapy?
Among other activities, this counseling specialty area advocates for older adults.
What is Gerontological Counseling?
The original name of the American Counseling Association.
What is the American Personnel and Guidance Association?
Greek philosopher Epicurus advocated for this in treating mental illness?
What is hedonism?
Counseling differs from other mental health fields because it focuses on wellness, ecology, prevention, and this.
What is development?
Joseph Wolpe is most associated with this group of counseling therapies?
This is the counseling accreditation body that creates educational standards for the individual specialty areas.
What is CACREP?
In 2010, the ACA Governing Counsel defined counseling as...
What is, "a professional relationship that empowers diverse individual, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals?"
This law resulted in an increased professional role for counselors.
What is the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963?
Reducing teen pregnancy, 24-hour crisis hotlines, and improving housing for elderly persons are all considered part of this primary purpose of counselors.
What is prevention?
One of the newer, third generation cognitive-behavioral therapies created in Australia.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) or Narrative Therapy?