Lesson 4: Counseling Processes and Techniques

Question 1

The Counseling Processes

Answer 1

1. Relationship Building
2. Problem Identification and Exploration
3. Planning for the Problem Solving
4. Solution Application and Termination

Question 2

Who said this?

“Therapists can not open hope hope to open doors for clients that they have not opened for themselves.”

Answer 2

Corey

Question 3

Problem Identification and Exploration is part of counseling process. Under this, it has three parts. What are those?

Answer 3

A. Define the problem
B. Explore the problems
C. Integrate the Information

Question 4

True or false

Problem identification and exploration should be in a professional way and is structured.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Planning for the Problem Solving is part of the counseling process, what are the four parts of it?

Answer 5

A. Set a goal
b. Identify and List all possible solutions
c. Explore the consequences of the suggested solutions
d. Prioritize the solution

Question 6

How many sessions a counseling should have?

Answer 6

6-8 sessions

Question 7

what are the counseling strategies?

Answer 7

1. Relationship Strategies
2. Communicating Strategies
3. Assessment Strategies
4. Insight Strategies

Question 8

In counseling your client, what distance should the counselor and the client should have?

Answer 8

2-3 feet distance without a table

Question 9

This refers to one of the counseling strategies which includes being attending, accepting, emphatic understanding, being genuine and transparent, respecting, listening, caring, and ensuring emotional security of the client.

Answer 9

Relationship Strategies

Question 10

Under the counseling strategies which has a definition of responding to verbal and non-verbal messages, silence, clarifying, reflecting, inquiring, paraphrasing and summarizing.

Answer 10

Communicating Strategies

Question 11

Part of the counseling strategies having a definition of: Evaluating the client’s situation, coping levels, helping the client explore suitable alternatives and determining appropriate resources and referrals.

Answer 11

Assessment Strategies

Question 12

Part of counseling strat and its definition is: Facilitating the discovery of conflicts, helping the client understand conscious, unconscious and altered conscious thoughts.

Answer 12

Insight Strategies

Question 13

Define the four counseling strategies:

1. Relationship Strategies
2. Communicating Strategies
3. Assessment Strategies
4. Insight Strategies

Answer 13

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Question 14

What are the counseling skills? and try to define each

Answer 14

1. Listening Skills
2. Leading Skills
3. Reflecting Skills
4. Summarizing Skills
5. Confronting Skills
6. Interpretative Skills
7. Informing Skills
8. Teaching Coping Skills

Question 15

Under counseling skills:

Counselor notes verbal and non-verbal behaviors of client and responds to the basic messages of the client, clarifies content and emotions and checks the client’s perceptions for accuracy.

Answer 15

Listening Skills

Question 16

Under counseling skills:

Leading the counseling interview, encourages and elaborates discussions, focuses on the issue by controlling confusion or diffusion, conducts open and closed inquiries through unstructured strategy of questioning.

Answer 16

Leading Skills

Question 17

Under counseling skills:

Reflects feelings as he responds to he client’s emotion, reflects contents as he underscores the ideas and messages, and reflects experience as he responds the client’s total experience.

Answer 17

Reflecting Skills

Question 18

Under counseling skills:

Putting the client’s messages and emotions together to make a total picture.

Answer 18

Summarizing Skills

Question 19

Under counseling skills:

Recognizing and describing feelings, reacts to client’s expression and emotions, screens and pinpoints feelings, promotes self-confrontation, and facilitates the loosening of the client’s feelings.

Answer 19

Confronting Skills

Question 20

Under counseling skills:

Gives valid information based on research and expertise and discusses with the client alternatives for possible solution of problems or possible ways of attending the client’s concern.

Answer 20

Informing Skilss

Question 20

Under counseling skills:

Facilitates awareness as he symbolizes the client’s messages and emotions for a wider understanding of feelings and for broader perceptions.

Answer 20

Interpretative Skills

Question 21

Under counseling skills:

Encourage clients to learn effective ways of solving his problems by using his own resources.

Answer 21

Teaching Coping Skills

Question 22

What are the counseling tools? Enumerate

Answer 22

1. Observation
2. inventories/Questionnaires
3. Autobiographical Sketches
4. Case Study
5. Assessment (Objective Tests and Projective Techniques)
6. Anecdotal Records
7. Psychological Interview.

Question 23

Enumerate the ten counseling services

Answer 23

1. Individual Counseling
2. Group Counseling
3. Career Counseling
4. Couple Counseling
5. Family Counseling
6. Community Referrals
7. Assessment
8. Training
9. Consultation
10. Research

Question 24

Is part of counseling services: Is confidential short-term therapy available to all client/students. The initial appointment will help clarify if short-term individual counseling is recommended, and an appointment will be made with a staff member as soon as possible. If longer term counseling services are needed, referral to a professional will be made.

Answer 24

Individual Counseling

Question 25

Is part of counseling services: There are variety of counseling groups to help client/students find a forum of peer support and meet with other client/students who can relate to one another.

Answer 25

Group Counseling

Question 26

Is part of counseling services: Is part of counseling services: This is offered in either individual or group formats to assist students with academic and career issues

Answer 26

Career Counseling

Question 27

Is part of counseling services: This is offered in either one couple or group of couples to assist in either relationship conflicts or marital issues.

Answer 27

Couple Counseling

Question 28

Is part of counseling services: This is offered to families experiencing problems with child rearing or discipline parent-child relationship conflict and dysfunctional issues like domestic violence and abuse

Answer 28

Family Counseling

Question 29

True or false? Counseling strategies should focus on developing a client’s awareness of his unlimited human potential for his or other’s good, not on strategies directed toward conformity to various standards difficult for him to understand nor accept deeply.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Enumerate the coping skills

Answer 30

1. Perceptual Skills 2. Cognitive Skills 3. Support Network Skills 4. Stress Management SKills 5. Problem-solving Skills 6. Description and Expression of Feelings

Question 31

Under coping skills: guides client to see problematic situations clearly and to analyze the situations with the end-view of realizing that there are solutions to problems.

Answer 31

Perceptual Skills

Question 32

Under coping skills: helps client reconstruct his thoughts and alter any self-defeating thinking

Answer 32

Cognitive Skills

Question 33

Under coping skills: helps the client assess, strengthen and diversify environmental sources of support

Answer 33

Support Network Skill

Question 34

Under coping skills: reduces the client’s tensions through self and environmental management procedures.

Answer 34

Stress Management Skills

Question 35

Under coping Skills introduces and increases problem solving competence through application of problem solving models

Answer 35

Problem-solving Skills

Question 36

Under coping Skills induces articulation of the client’s emotions such as anger, fear, guilt, love, and joy.

Answer 36

Description and Expression of Feelings

Question 37

Enumerate the selected techniques

Answer 37

1. Living and Learning through Loss 2. Lifestyle Approach 3. Life Review 4. Fantasy Therapy 5. Play Therapy 6. Metaphor 7. Imagery 8. Stress Care

Question 38

Under selected techniques: an information-based and experiential program for adolescents who are in the midst of coping with significant life change events like loss of a loved one or any family member ○ the loss of someone special can lead to depression, anxiety and anger ○ dedicated to helping clients survive happily. It focuses on the alleviation of emotional distress and the relief of suffering and pain

Answer 38

Living and Learning through Loss

Question 39

Under selected techniques: This is an assessment technique used for adolescents and adults with 8 avenues giving information about one's lifestyle. Emphasizes the interrelatedness of man as a social being with personal social problems. Information sharing with clients explores and focuses on the three areas of social living such as work or school, love and friendship.

Answer 39

Lifestyle Approach

Question 40

8 Avenues of Lifestyle Approach and try to define each

Answer 40

1. Case History 2. Psyc'l Interviewing 3. Expressive Behavior 4. Psyc'l Testing 5. Family Constellation 6. Early Recollections 7. Grouping 8. Symptomatic Behavior

Question 41

This is one of the 8 avenues of lifestyle approach: Knowing the client

Answer 41

Case History

Question 42

This is one of the 8 avenues of lifestyle approach: talking to the client

Answer 42

Pysc'l Interviewing

Question 43

This is one of the 8 avenues of lifestyle approach: Observing Client

Answer 43

Expressive Behavior

Question 44

This is one of the 8 avenues of lifestyle approach: measuring client

Answer 44

Psyc'l Testing

Question 45

This is one of the 8 avenues of lifestyle approach: Social Influence

Answer 45

Family Constellation

Question 46

This is one of the 8 avenues of lifestyle approach: Finding out client's meaning of life

Answer 46

Early Recollections

Question 47

This is one of the 8 avenues of lifestyle approach: Interacting with client

Answer 47

Grouping

Question 48

This is one of the 8 avenues of lifestyle approach: Knowing the client's tell-tale signs

Answer 48

Symptomatic Behavior

Question 49

Under selected techniques: ● the process of helping older persons develop insights into one’s life by focusing on transitions or approaching transitions such as critical changes in lifestyle, aging, retirement, loss of loved ones or one's own approaching death. ● helps in facing critical developmental issues and problems such as low self-concept or low self-esteem and unable to use the past in understanding the present and visualizing the future.

Answer 49

Life Review

Question 50

Under selected techniques: ● use to make contact with unavailable people, unfinished events or business, feelings that are resisted. ● client is encouraged to talk and express repressed feelings and emotions like grief, guilt, hatred ●This technique requires a deeper training ●EMPTY CHAIR

Answer 50

Fantasy Therapy

Question 51

Under selected Techniques: ● use as psychotherapy for children to bring about temporary attachment to the therapist ● given to cases of child abuse or trauma ● the therapist provide companionship not leadership ● therapist does not hurry the child and be just silent beside the child ● requires in-depth training psychoanalysis

Answer 51

Play Therapy

Question 52

Under selected techniques: focus in on the interactional process between and among members of the family

Answer 52

Family Therapy

Question 53

What are the 3 Approaches to Family Therapy?

Answer 53

1. Contextual Approach 2. Structural Approach 3. Strategic Approach

Question 54

Under the 3 approaches of family therapy based on system theory with an objective to establish trustworthiness and fairness of the family and to correct object loss.

Answer 54

Contextual Approach

Question 55

Under the 3 approaches of family therapy ● focuses on the interpersonal communications ● the goal is to make a dysfunctional family structures to make a dynamic family.

Answer 55

Structural Approach

Question 56

Under the 3 approaches of family therapy ● therapist assess the power structure of the family ● the therapist focus on specific problem of the family and this approach involves 4 Stages: ○ Social ○ Probem ○ Interaction ○ Goal Setting

Answer 56

Strategic Approach

Question 57

Under the selected techniques: ● use as an excellent way to deal with the person’s way of resistance to convey communication ● has the ability to reach an effective component of one’s personality to protect one’s own privacy ● used in recorded history and Bible through parables, proverbs, anecdotes and stories which has symbolic meanings (right brain)

Answer 57

Metaphor

Question 58

Under the selected techniques: ● use to deal with client’s recurrent dreams by giving meaning and interpretations ● focuses on the client’s frustrations, thoughts, and feelings andunsettle energies like anger, fears and anxiety. ● used as healing process of the psyche or mind ● requires deeper training.

Answer 58

Imagery

Question 59

Under the selected techniques: ● focus on managing stress or taking charge of one’s thoughts, emotions schedule, environment and the way to deal with problems ● the goal is to achieve a balance life with time for work, relationships, relaxation and fun - plus resilience to hold on under pressure and meet challenges on ● helps client how to manage stress: 1. Identify sources of Stress 2. Learn healthier ways to cope with stress 3. Avoid Unnecessary Stress 4. Alter the Situation 5. Adapt to the Stressor 6. Accept things you can’t change 7. Make time for fun and relaxation 8. Adopt a healthy lifestyle

Answer 59

Stress Care

Question 60

This helps client how to manage stress

Answer 60

1. Identify sources of Stress 2. Learn healthier ways to cope with stress 3. Avoid Unnecessary Stress 4. Alter the Situation 5. Adapt to the Stressor 6. Accept things you can’t change 7. Make time for fun and relaxation 8. Adopt a healthy lifestyle