Therapeutic Relationship
When considering the "3 V's + B" of attending behavior, the "B" stands for this.
What is Body Language?
Name two positive reasons why a person might want to become a counselor.
What are: to help others, to make a difference, to learn about human nature, to do for someone else what was done for them (pay it forward), to help someone else not to have a bad experience, to have a career with meaning/purpose?
While ethics are standards of behavior set up by a group, *this term* refers to enforceable rules set up by the government of a community.
What are Laws?
This ethical code section (A.2.a.) recommends that clients be given enough information to decide if they want to be in counseling or not.
What is "informed consent?"
With most clients, the counselor is encouraged to show body posture that conveys interest and comfort with the client's presence, which is called *this* word (that begins with an O).
What is Open body posture?
The therapeutic relationship accounts for about *this* percentage of therapy outcomes.
What is about 30%?
Name two negative reasons why someone might want to become a counselor?
What are: to feel powerful, to tell others what to do, to feel needed/wanted, to feel superior, to judge others, to feel included, to take advantage of the vulnerable?
This ethical "guiding principle" refers to the professional value of respecting our clients' right to make decisions for themselves.
What is autonomy?
Give two typical limitations/exceptions to the rule of confidentiality in counseling.
What are: danger to self, danger to others, child abuse, elder/vulnerable adult abuse, client gives permission, court requires information?
What is "vocal quality?"
These are the three essential characteristics of a counselor, as identified by Carl Rogers.
What are empathy, genuineness, and positive regard?
From "The Hurting Counselor" article, *this* was one of the reasons the author gave for why he had trouble seeking counseling for himself?
What are: self-stigma, denying his own need for counseling, time/money, not sure where/who to seek counseling from?
The two main reasons for having ethical codes are to protect *these* two groups of people.
When considering self-disclosing something, Yalom suggests that *these* kinds of self-disclosures are the most useful for the therapy process.
What are "self-disclosures about what is happening in the session?"
With most clients, *this* is the recommended practice in terms of eye contact.
What is steady, and culturally appropriate, eye contact?
The Therapeutic Alliance consists of these three aspects.
What are:
agreement on tasks?
agreement on goals?
emotional bond b/w counselor & client?
Counselors and clients may find this values inventory helpful for identifying and ranking the values most important to them.
What is the Rokeach values inventory?
This is the simplest way to explain the meaning behind ethical principle of "nonmaleficence."
What is "do no harm" or "avoid harming your clients?"
When considering starting a non-sexual multiple relationship with a client, counselors should ask themselves these three questions.
Whose needs are being met here?
Is there a potential to exploit the client?
Is there a potential to impair my judgment?
The "L" in the acronym SOLER stands for *this.*
What is Lean forward?
This kind of empathy is shown when a counselor makes an empathic response that also is connected to previously-discussed themes or ideas in therapy.
What is advanced empathy?
This is the advice that the ACA code of ethics gives counselors about their personal values in counseling.
What is "be aware of your values and avoid imposing them on clients?"
According to the code, the primary responsibility of counselors is to respect *this.*
What is "the dignity and well-being of clients?"
According to the Corey decision-making model, *this* is the FINAL step a counselor should take when confronted with an ethical dilemma.
What is "select a course of action and evaluate the outcome?"
According to Dr. Bill Hanson, counselors need to build a relationship before trying to "fix" problems. He expressed this using *this* 4-word phrase.
What is "soothe before you move?"