The Role of Professional Consultation
What is a consultation?
An indirect intervention utilized to help support those who are being supervised develop skills and services to clients during a temporary supervision period.
What are some important processes in the supervision process?
informed consent, supervision, agreement, supervisor competence, confidentiality, responsibility and vicarious liability concerns.
What is the Integrated Developmental Model?
This model is designed to assess motivation, awareness, autonomy, and integration across 8 domains throughout the course of a counselor's career.
What is the range of post-master's hours required for licensure in most states?
1,000-3,500 hours.
What are some of the reason's a counselor who integrates Adlerian Theory would cause disfunction within their clients lives?
mistaken beliefs, fault values, and useless or self-absorbed goals.
What are some of the roles of a consultant?
A trainer or educator, a collaborator, an advocate, a prescriber, and mediator.
What is the role of the clinical supervisor?
monitor the clients welfare, encourage and monitor compliance with legal, ethical and professional practices.
What are 8 domains of the Integrated Developmental Model?
Intervention Skills, Assessment Techniques, Interpersonal Assessment Skills, Case Conceptualization, Multi-Cultural Comptneacies, Theory/Orientation, Treatment Plan and Goals, and Professional Ethics.
In most states what is the scope of practice of licensed mental health practitioners include?
Assessment intake, treatment of individual's families and groups, diagnostic evaluation.
What kind of relationship would a therapist who integrates Adlerian Theory establish with their clients?
a collaborative relationship that allows both the therapist and the client to work towards the goals of the client.
What factors warrant Counselors to know when they need a consultation?
a lack of knowledge, a lack of skill, a lack of confidence, and a lack of objectivity.
What is due process in a supervisor's role?
all supervised consolers have the right to respond to negative comments or evaluations with the proper amount of time and opportunity to make improvements to better establish concerned areas.
What are the two intervention methods in the Integrated Developmental Model?
Facilitative, and Authoritative
Can Social Worker's gain an LMPH with a Master's Degree?
No, social workers have an individualized professional group in order to become therapists. They would not be able to be licensed as a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner.
In Cognitive Behavioral Theory what kind of relationship is established between a client and counselor.
A strong therapeutic alliance is establish between the client and the counselor in order to better facilitate the work with the counselor acting as the expert in explain cognitive barriers present in the client.
What is a program-centered administrative consultation?
Evaluates a program to provide feedback about how to improve its current functioning.
When a supervisor is supervising a grad student or provisionally licensed counselor who is ethically responsible for the client's well-being, and what is this called?
The supervisor is ethically responsible for the client's well-being, and this is called vicarious liability.
What are a supervisors roles within the Discrimination Model?
Counselor, Teacher, and Consultant
If someone is a self proclaimed LC (Life Coach) can they conduct their clients in therapy, treatment plans, and give them a diagnosis?
Ethically life coaches do not have to undergo specific licensure in the way a counselor does such as following CACREP programs or having a professional identity through professional organization united under ethical and legal codes according to the laws.
In Strength-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy what kind of relationship is established between the client and the counselor?
A collaborative and active presently focused and client centered relationship is establish between the client and the therapist.
What does a client-centered consultation consist of?
Consultant assists with the client's treatment plan, diagnostics, as well as concerns related directly to the client.
What role does a supervisor play in requirements for the future of a younger counselor's career?
supervisors can set further requirements for counselors such as a period of time i.e. clinical hours they have towards licensure, or a number of clinical hours or requirements required post licensure.
What skills are supervisors looking for in the Discrimination Model?
intervention, conceputalization, and personalization.
What does CACREP stand for and what purpose does it serve?
Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. This program was created to unify a set of training standards that strengthen the professional practice of counseling.
If a therapist is utilizing a cognitive behavioral theory within their practice what kind of activities would this counselor facilitate?
Sometimes they could offer homework to better explore cognitions and and behavioral skills outside of session.