Treatment
This evidence-based treatment approach focuses on identifying and challenging distorted thoughts while changing maladaptive behaviors
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A client presents with persistent sadness, loss of interest, sleep disturbance, and fatigue lasting more than two weeks.
What is MDD?
This ethical principle requires Licensed Professional Counselors to respect the ____ of client information, with only a few exceptions such as imminent harm, abuse reporting, or a court order
What is confidentiality?
In a treatment plan, these statements describe what the client wants to achieve in counseling.
What are treatment goals?
This foundational counseling skill involves repeating back what the client has said in your own words to ensure understanding and show empathy.
What is paraphrasing (or reflection of content)?
A counselor helps a client struggling with substance use by exploring ambivalence, supporting self-efficacy, and developing discrepancy. This describes which intervention?
What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?
Recurrent, unexpected panic attacks followed by persistent concern about having another attack are key diagnostic criteria for this disorder.
What is Panic Disorder?
According to the ACA Code of Ethics, counselors must avoid situations where their personal interests interfere with their professional judgment.
What is conflicts of interest?
When developing treatment goals, counselors should ensure they are ________
What are SMART goals?
When a counselor highlights both sides of a client’s ambivalence about change to increase motivation, they are using this intervention common in motivational interviewing.
What is developing discrepancy?
In family therapy, this model emphasizes boundaries, subsystems, and hierarchy within the family system to improve relational functioning.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
This disorder is characterized by intrusive memories, avoidance behaviors, negative changes in mood, and hyperarousal lasting more than one month after a traumatic event.
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This ethical principle obligates counselors to obtain permission from clients before sharing treatment information with third parties, ensuring clients understand the purpose, risks, and benefits.
What is informed consent?
This part of the treatment plan details the counselor’s strategies and therapeutic techniques used to help the client meet their goals.
What are interventions?
In cognitive-behavioral therapy, this intervention helps clients examine and reframe distorted patterns of thinking that contribute to distress.
What is cognitive restructuring (or challenging cognitive distortions)?
In trauma-focused treatment, this evidence-based intervention helps clients gradually confront and process distressing memories in a safe and controlled way.
What is Prolonged Exposure Therapy (or Exposure Therapy)?
A client shows distinct periods of abnormally elevated mood, increased energy, decreased need for sleep, and inflated self-esteem, alternating with episodes of depression.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
Sexual and/or romantic counselor– client interactions or relationships with former clients, their romantic partners, or their family members are prohibited for a period of ___ following the last professional contact
What is 5 years?
According to the NCMHCE framework, treatment planning must integrate information from this process, which involves gathering biopsychosocial data, clinical history, and client strengths.
What is intake and/or assessment process?
This therapeutic skill involves observing and describing inconsistencies between a client’s words and actions to promote insight and growth.
What is confrontation?
This intervention emphasizes identifying automatic thoughts, core beliefs, and schemas, then restructuring them to support healthier functioning.
What is Cognitive Restructuring?
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality, attention-seeking behavior, discomfort when not the center of attention, and rapidly shifting emotions are hallmark features of this personality disorder.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
This term describes the ethical obligation of counselors to act in ways that benefit the client and promote their well-being, while avoiding actions that cause harm.
What are beneficence and nonmaleficence?
Outpatient mental health treatment plans should be reviewed and updated at least every
What is 30 to 90 days?
This advanced intervention draws on a client’s strengths and cultural resources, emphasizing collaboration and empowerment while guiding them toward solutions.
What is strengths-based or solution-focused counseling?