Building Counseling Relationships
Working in and Closing a Counseling Relationship
Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, Humanistic Theories
Behavioral, Cognitive, Systemic Theories
Wild Card
100

This includes details about the nature of counseling, expectations, responsibilities, methods and ethics of counseling.

What is a professional disclosure statement

100

This is a conscious and purposeful aspect of a counseling relationship and includes affective or bonding elements such as “liking, respect, and trust,” along with a collaborative spirit between counselor and client in “establishing tasks and goals of treatment” (Fitzpatrick & Irannejad, 2008, p. 438)

What is a working alliance

100

This is a model that counselors use as a guide to hypothesize about the formation of possible solutions to a problem.

What is a theory

100

When the counselor functions as a consultant, teacher, adviser, reinforce, and facilitator (James & Gilliland, 2013)

What is Behavioral Counseling

100

This is the amount of verbal and nonverbal behavior shown to the client

What is attentiveness

200

This is the motivation to change. 

What is initiative

200

This is the client’s projection of past or present 

feelings, attitudes or desires onto the counselor (Brammer & MacDonald, 2003)

What is transference

200

This is comprised of the Id, Ego, and Superego

What the personality is comprised of according to Freud and Psychoanalysis

200

This is something that will spell out behaviors to be performed, changed, or stopped, the rewards to each goal and conditions to each reward

What is a contingency contract in behavioral counseling
200

These are 4 major actions that block client-counselor communication and should be avoided.

What are Advice-giving, Lecturing, Excessive questioning, and Storytelling by the counselor

300

This is when the counselor points out to the client what the client is doing, i.e. inconsistencies.

What is confrontation

300

This is the counselor’s projected 

emotional reaction to or behavior toward the client.

What is countertransference

300

This is the notition that people are primarily motivated by social interest - a feeling of being connected to society as part of the social whole 

What is the Adlerian view of human nature

300

These are thoughts, beliefs, and internal images that 

people have about events in their lives

What are cognitions

300

This is the decision to end a counseling 

relationship

What is termination

400

This is a genuine interest in and accepting of the client

What is rapport

400

This can be a a constant desire to please the client, overidentification with the client’s problems, developing sexual or romantic feelings towards the client, giving advice compulsively, or wanting to develop a social relationship with the client (Corey et al., 2015)

What is the manifestation of countertransference

400

The notion that love, warmth, care, respect are needed for a healthy self to emerge

What is positive regard

400

This is the idea that dysfunctional behavior is caused by dysfunctional thinking; if beliefs change, behaviors change

What is the human view of cognitive therapy

400
These are used to help children and adults to allow the amygdala calm down so the prefrontal cortex can take over.

What are time outs

500

This is the counselor’s ability to enter the client’s 

phenomenal world, to experience the client’s world as if it were the counselor’s own, without ever losing the as if quality

What is empathy

500

This is the intent to avoid deception, including 

self-deception

What is genuineness
500

This is comprised of using Empathy, Unconditional positive regard (acceptance), Congruence (genuineness, openness) when working with clients

What is person-centered counseling

500

This is a generic term for conceptualizing a group of related elements (people) that interact as a whole entity (a family or a group)

What is systems theory

500

The questions one asks themselves I am...the world is...therefore

What is the basis of Adlerian theory