Research
The average in a set of data.
What is a mean?
Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to a significantly low body weight and intense fear of weight gain.
What is anorexia nervosa?
A primary ethical concern for group counselors related to the protection of clients’ private information shared within the group.
What is confidentiality?
According to Erikson, this stage in early childhood is focused on learning to trust others and the world around them.
Trust vs. Mistrust.
This ethical principle requires counselors to provide clients with all relevant information about the counseling process, including potential risks, benefits, and alternatives.
What is informed consent?
The degree to which a study measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
A condition defined by extreme picky eating and little interest in, or fear of, food or eating, without body image concern.
What is ARFID? (Avoidant/Restrictive food intake disorder)
This type of group therapy approach focuses on increasing awareness of the present moment and fostering personal responsibility within the group.
What is Gestalt therapy?
This psychologist's work on moral development, particularly the difference in how men and women approach moral reasoning, emphasized care-based morality rather than justice-based morality.
Occurrence when a client unconsciously redirects feelings, desires, or expectations from someone else onto their therapist.
What is transferrence?
Non-numerative, descriptive data.
What is qualitative data?
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects, and marked impulsivity.
What is borderline personality disorder?
A stage in group counseling where members start to express deeper feelings, encounter resistance, and navigate conflicts, which can lead to growth and trust.
The process through which an individual adapts their existing cognitive structures to incorporate new experiences and information.
What is accommodation?
A psychological phenomenon that occurs when the therapist projects their own unresolved conflicts onto the client.
What is countertransference?
Type of data that temperature would be considered as.
What is interval data?
A condition that is marked by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression, mania, and a milder form of mania called hypomania.
What is schizoaffective disorder?
The first step a counselor takes in a group counseling setting to ensure a safe and productive environment by setting guidelines for behavior, confidentiality, and participation.
What is establishing group norms?
In Vygotsky’s theory, this term refers to the assistance or guidance provided by a more knowledgeable individual that helps the learner perform tasks they cannot do independently.
What is scaffolding?
A counselor dismisses a client’s family dynamics because they don’t align with their own cultural norms.
What is a cultural bias?
Numerical value that measures the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.
What is the correlation coefficient?
A mental health condition that involves a pattern of unusual behaviors, beliefs, and ways of thinking that make it difficult to form close relationships.
What is schizotypal personality disorder?
A type of group therapy that educates participants about mental health conditions, substance abuse, and how to cope with them.
What is a psychoeducational group?
This term, introduced by Vygotsky, refers to the range of tasks a child can complete with guidance from a more knowledgeable person, but cannot do alone.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
This legal and ethical duty requires counselors to report certain information to authorities, such as when there is a risk of harm to the client or others, or in cases of child abuse.