Types of Counseling
This avenue of counseling helps individuals within relationships; it can be marriage, dating, or anything between. The therapist should be prepared to navigate both partners with equal attention.
Couples Therapy
This activity can help clients go deeper by creating scenes in sand that articulate a particular aspect of their work. For example, "Create a scene that depicts how you feel at the end of your counseling journey".
Sandtray
This platform will likely be where your professional profile lives when your future clients search for a therapist and find you...
Psychology Today
Your client tells you they have very serious romantic affection toward you but honestly report they are no longer able to meaningfully engage in counseling because of it. What do you do?
Have an honest conversation surrounding what the experience has been like for the client, reflect, but ultimately engage in a compassionate handoff of care- decided collaboratively.
Intake, sessions, termination. This is called the
3 step model
"In here, you get to decide!" - this type of therapy occurs in a play room with children ages 3-11.
Play Therapy
This type of activity refers to utilizing lyrics, melodies, and instruments to process emotions
As a counselor, it is necessary to do this one thing to your social media accounts to ensure clients to not have open-access to your life
Make accounts private
A client finds you on social media through a basic name search. After handling this ethically (noting the message in your professional notes, seeking consultation, etc.) how would you address or not address in the session to follow?
I would address and I would re-articulate professional and therapeutic boundaries.
ROC, ROF, and ROM
In this counseling, prepare yourself to work with the whole unit. Mom, dad, sister Sally and brother Andrew.
Family Counseling
This phrase refers to the broader category of using varying art forms within counseling
Expressive Arts
This is something that happens when a counseling student does something (or a series of things) against our code of ethics, behaves unprofessionally, or has in some way failed to uphold necessary professionalism within their classes/work.
Competency plan
Your client requests you engage in biblical counseling with them. You don't mind, because you yourself believe in the Bible and know it well. What are your next steps?
You cannot engage in a therapy that your client did not consent to. You either don't change your informed consent and don't practice the new therapy, or you change it and have your client sign it, and only then could you engage in said therapy.
This is the phrase used to describe the competencies necessary when working with diverse populations
Multicultural competencies
Where this counseling can technically be offered to everyone, it is primarily reserved for teenagers who don't quite think it's cool to talk about your feelings. Instead, they do this:
Activity Therapy
Speaking of using activities in counseling- let's do a True or False question. T/F, you have to have a highly specialized license to use art within your own counseling sessions with clients.
False; trainings are a good idea, but you do not need a specific license to practice/use them
T/F, your professional headshots/photos don't matter much when clients are looking for a counselor
FALSE
This was the year the current ACA Code of Ethics came out.
2014
This is the broad approach to counseling that focuses on relationship, warmth, and unconditional positive regard
Humanism/person centered
Anywhere from 2-12, this counseling happens sitting a circle with individuals who have a shared purpose-
Group Therapy
Another T/F, expressive arts therapies are great for all clients and it's not necessary to check in with a client before introducing one to session.
FALSE, expressives are not a perfect fit for all clients!
This is our manual as counselors when we need to investigate what a certain 'code' says about how we should handle something
ACA Code of Ethics
The accrediting body for counseling programs that you should be looking for is called:
CACREP
This the the broad counseling approach that refers to re-wiring cognitions and disputing irrational beliefs
Cognitive/behaviorism