That Counseling License
This is the certification board that sponsors tests for licensure, including the National Counselor Exam and the National Clinical Mental Health Counselor Examination.
What is the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)?
Unconditional Positive Regard, Congruence/Genuineness, and Empathy
What is Person-Centered/Rogerian?
This is a widely used screening test for problem drinking and drug use. The questionnaire takes less than one minute to administer, and is often used in primary care or other general settings as a quick screening tool rather than as an in-depth interview for those who have alcoholism or drug problems.
What is the CAGE-AID?
This is an abnormally elevated mood state characterized by such symptoms as inappropriate elation, increased irritability, severe insomnia, grandiose notions, increased speed and/or volume of speech, disconnected and racing thoughts, increased sexual desire, markedly increased energy and activity level, poor judgment, and inappropriate social behavior.
What is mania?
This is a normal, tranquil mental state or mood. It is often used to describe a stable mental state or mood in those affected with bipolar disorder.
What is euthymia?
This is the number of supervised clock-hours you need before you can submit an application to the New York State Office of Professions to become a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC).
What is 3,000 clock hours?
Dream Analysis, Free Association, Interpretation of Freudian Slips and Mistakes
What is Psychoanalysis?
This assessment is a nine-item depression scale of the patient health questionnaire. It is one of the most validated tools in mental health and can be a powerful tool to assist clinicians with diagnosing depression and monitoring treatment response.
What is the PHQ-9 Depression Scale?
This is a type of hallucination that makes a person detect smells that aren't really present in your environment.
What is an olfactory hallucination?
This is a type of speech in which the train of thought of the speaker wanders and shows a lack of focus, never returning to the initial topic of the conversation.
What is tangential?
This is the number of continuing education hours you need, every triennial period, period to maintain your license as an LHMC.
What is 36 hours of continuing education?
Token Economy, Systematic Desensitization, and Flooding
What is Behavior Therapy?
This is a questionnaire used for suicide assessment. It is available in 114 country-specific languages. Mental health training is not required to administer this assessment, and various professionals can administer this scale, including physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, peer counselors, coordinators, research assistants, high school students, teachers and clergy.
What is the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)?
This is is a symptom related to a wide range of mood disorders. People with this condition engage in movements that serve no purpose. Examples include pacing around the room, tapping your toes, or rapid talking.
What is psychomotor agitation?
This is a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases, most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder, like schizophrenia.
What is word salad?
These are the professions who can supervise counselors looking to attain licensure as an LHMC in New York.
What is...this: "Your supervisor must be licensed and registered in New York State to practice Mental Health Counseling, medicine, as a physician assistant, psychology, licensed clinical social work, or as a registered professional nurse or nurse practitioner and competent in the practice of Mental Health Counseling, or must have the equivalent qualifications as determined by the Department for experience completed in another jurisdiction."
Challenging Beliefs, Journaling, and Mindfulness
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
This assessment was developed by a team of psychiatrists, researchers, and consumer advocates to address the need for a timely and accurate evaluation of bipolar disorder.
What is the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ)?
This is an impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write. It is always due to injury to the brain-most commonly from a stroke, particularly in older individuals.
What is aphasia?
This is a phenomenon that occurs in people with psychiatric illnesses (usually schizophrenia), occurs when a person's speech is suddenly interrupted by silences that may last a few seconds to a minute or longer.
What is thought blocking?
A person is not permitted to earn licensing hours in this type of counseling setting.
What is a private practice owned or operated by the applicant?
Mindfulness, Radical Acceptance, and Story of Emotion.
What is Dialectical behavior therapy?
This assessment records the occurrence of tardive dyskinesia (TD) in patients receiving neuroleptic medications.
What is the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)?
This is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to perform learned (familiar) movements on command, even though the command is understood and there is a willingness to perform the movement.
What is apraxia?
This is a global reduction in the quantity of thought and one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. It can also be a feature of severe depression or dementia
What is poverty of thought?