Social & Cultural Diversity
Viewing one’s own culture as superior and judging others by that standard.
Ethnocentrism
The legal and ethical range of services, interventions, and duties licensed counselors can provide.
Scope of Practice
Job satisfaction depends on correspondence depends on correspondence between individual needs and work environment enforcers.
Work Adjustment Theory
Therapeutic process where multiple clients discuss issues, share support, and learn interpersonal skills.
Group Counseling
Confidence in caregiver’s availability, leading to healthy exploration and emotional regulation.
secure attachment in children
A person fully adopting the dominant culture’s norms, potentially losing aspects of the original culture.
Assimilation
Ensuring clients understand the counseling process, their rights and potential risk benefits or risks
Informed Consent
Working in a job that does not utilize a person’s full skills or educational background.
Underemployment
Seeing others improve fosters optimism and confidence in one’s potential for change.
Installation of Hope
Toddler stage children learn independence or doubt their abilities if overcontrolled.
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
An approach that validates LGBTQ+ identities, addresses oppression, and supports empowerment.
LGBTQ+ Affirmative Counseling
Regulates privacy, security, and transmission of client health information in the United States.
HIPPA
Discrimination, limited educational opportunities, or geographic constraints impacting career progress.
Career Barrier
Emotional release that occurs when deeply held feelings are expressed and validated.
Catharsis in group therapy
Supportive strategies to help learners master new tasks, gradually removed as skills grow.
Scaffolding in learning
Adaptation to or borrowing traits from another culture while retaining one's original identity.
Acculturation
Acting in the best interests of clients to promote their well-being and positive outcomes.
Beneficence in Counseling
Enjoys helping, instructing, or guiding others; leans toward service, teaching, or counseling
Social Type
Active listening, empathy, modeling, confronting, summarizing, and goal setting with group members.
Group Leader’s Core skills.
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance—common emotional responses to loss.
Kubler-Ross Five Stages of Grief
An individual’s sense of belonging to a particular ethnic group, shaping values and traditions
Ethnic Self Identification
Professional negligence leading to client harm due to breaching standard care or ethical codes.
Malpractice
Core motivations that guide occupational choices, like autonomy, security, or helping others.
work values in career assessment
Realizing one is not alone in struggles, reducing isolation and stigma in group settings.
Universality (Yalom’s therapeutic factor)
Focuses on emotional bonds formed early in life influencing later relationships.
Attachment Theory (Bowlby/Ainsworth)