Counselor Work Settings
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the counseling field should grow by about *this* percentage for the next 8-10 years.
What is 22%?
(somewhere between 20-25%)
Research tells us that *this* is the single most important factor contributing to successful therapy.
What is "therapeutic relationship"?
This is one of the most common clinical assessment tools, and involves meeting with the client face-to-face and asking them a series of questions.
What is an intake interview?
(or "an intake")
This term is used to describe an initial diagnosis, that the counselor is open to changing or revising as they get new information.
What is a "working diagnosis?"
Counselors who work in medical settings, alongside doctors and nurses, are considered to be a part of *this* type of care system.
What is integrated care?
This important piece of legislation affects counselors who work in schools, and has to do with protection of, and access to, student records.
What is FERPA?
This type of therapy focuses on learning and reinforcing more appropriate actions taken by the client.
What is behavioral therapy?
This kind of assessment tool attempts to measure personality by interpreting client responses to ambiguous stimuli, like inkblots or vague pictures.
What is a projective test?
This branching diagnostic tool helps a counselor narrow down a diagnosis, through a series of yes-or-no questions.
What is a "decision tree?"
These are common ways that counselors in private practice get referrals for clients (name at least 2).
What are insurance panels, online directories, professional connections, community outreach, social media?
This three-word term refers to work-based counseling services that employers provide to their workers.
What is an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)?
Research indicates that all successful therapies have some similar basic elements, like a positive alliance, empathy, or the instillation of hope; together these factors are referred to as *this.*
What is are the "common factors?"
This term refers to how well a test actually measures what it is intended to measure.
What is "test validity?"
When making a diagnosis, a counselor typically gives a categorical description of the type of disorder, as well as *this* kind of indication about the severity of the disorder.
What is a dimensional description?
In RI and MA, this is the proper term for an individual who has a license to practice counseling.
What is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)?
Counselors who work in medical settings often provide *these* services to patients who are chronically ill or near death.
What is Hospice Care/Grief counseling?
This is a counseling theory designed to "identify and expand" clients' emotional expression, and gain deeper awareness of motivations and conflicts.
What is Emotion-Focused Therapy?
This refers to a type of assessment scoring that measures how your performance compares to the normal performances of other people like you, rather than compared to set of "correct" criteria.
What is norm-based scoring?
This term refers to conditions or situations in the DSM that aren't technically diagnoses, but that "may be a focus of clinical attention."
What a "V-Codes?"
According to the ACA 2014 Compensation Study, *this* is the setting where the largest percentage of counselors are employed.
What is Private Practice?
In addition to working in University counseling centers, counselors who work at colleges often work in *these* offices. (Several possible answers)
What are Career Services, Student Affairs, Conduct, Dean of Students offices?
This term refers to the general finding that no particular counseling theory is "best," and that all legitimate counseling theories can be useful in certain situations.
What is "The Dodo Bird Verdict?"
The Mini-Mental State Examination (which you gave/took in class) is an example of *this* type of assessment test?
What is a standardized neuropsychological test?
When developing a treatment plan, a counselor should take into account *this* type of information, which refers to how a specific client experiences their disorder, in their individual way.
What is idiographic information?
When counselors do Advocacy work, *this* term refers to persons who the counselor can enlist to help them, and who are often similarly affected by the problem.
What are "allies?"