Licensure + Certification
A minimum of 100 clock hours that includes at least 40 hours of direct service to clients, an average of 1hr/week supervision, and 1.5 hours of group supervision
What is practicum?
What is confidentiality?
A form of group counseling that uses group processes and techniques to treat psychological disturbance
What is a psychotherapy group?
An approach often used with troubled adolescents whose emotional and behavioral problems have resulted in their removal from family, school, and community. These adolescents get the opportunity to create a unique relationship and learn how their behavior affects others.
What is equine therapy?
Organization founded in 1952 that represents the interests of professional counselors in general
What is the American Counseling Association?
A minimum of 600 clock hours that includes 240 hours of direct service with appropriate clientele; 1hr/week supervision; and 1.5hr/weekly group supervision
What is the internship?
Boundary issues that occur when a counselor assumes two or more roles concurrently or sequentially with a person seeking help
What is a dual relationship?
The current picture of how the client is navigating in his or her niche, usually in response to the counselor's question "What's going on?"
What is a functional diagnosis?
The traditional approach to treating a client with a dual disorder
What is treating the substance abuse disorder first before moving on to the other mental health disorder?
The individual who founded the Boston Vocational Bureau in 1908 and who played a key role in the development of professional counseling
Who is Frank Parsons?
A clinical mental health counselor receives this credential when they have licensure, certification, experience, and proficiency in a specific area of specialization. The title is often "Clinical Mental Health Specialist in [name of specialization]"
What is a Diplomate?
If a counselor is called before an ethics committee for an alleged violation, they must demonstrate the application of this in connection with the allegation
What is an ethical decision-making model?
an indirect approach to helping clients by actively engaging in the process of arguing or pleading for a cause or proposal
What is advocacy?
Who are persons with severe and persistent mental illness?
The "elite four" who are professional rivals of counselors as they established themselves nationally
Who are social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and (psychiatric) nurses?
The 2015 AMHCA Standards for Practice go beyond CACREP-standards with this specialized knowledge and skill area [Name any of the 5]
What is: Biological Bases of Behavior, Specialized Clinical Assessment, Trauma Training, Co-occurring Disorders, and Technology Assisted Counseling?
The court case that established the clinician's "duty to warn"
What is Tarasoff v. Board of Regents of the University of California (1976)?
(1) The trend in which mental health consumers help themselves as advocates to (2) match the prescribed treatment's level of intensity to the severity of the client/consumer's condition in such a way that restrictions to the client/consumer's freedom are minimal
[Name both first and second concepts]
What are (1) the quiet revolution and (2) the least restrictive treatment?
The three-phase model to guide interventions of mental health professionals in trauma practice
What are (1) safety and stabilization, (2) remembrance and mourning, and (3) reconnection?
Freud's three stages of consciousness and three structures of personality
What are: (1) the conscious, (2) the preconscious, and (3) the unconscious AND (1) the id, (2) the ego, and (3) the superego?
The eight common core areas of study required by all CACREP-approved graduate counseling programs
What are: Professional Orientation and Ethical Practice; Social and Cultural Diversity; Human Growth and Development; Career Development; Counseling and Helping Relationships, Group Work, Assessment, and Research and Program Evaluation?
The six foundational principles of ethical codes
What are autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity?
The five stages of helping
What are: (1) establishing the relationship; (2) assessing or defining the presenting problem; (3) identifying and setting goals; (4) choosing and initiating interventions; and (5) planning and introducing termination and follow-up?
Three approaches to working with the homeless population
What are: (1) Train/Place model [initial placement is based on assessment/treatment needs]; (2) Place/Train model [placement in independent housing comes first]; and (3) Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) [multi-disciplinary team approach with 24-hour availability]?
The transtheoretical model of behavioral change [5 stages] and Bronfenbrenner's ecological model [4 levels]
What are: (1) precontemplation-contemplation-preparation-action-maintenance and (2) microsystem-mesosystem-exosystem-macrosystem?