Study Guide/Random

Question 1

Empathy involves the skills of…

Answer 1

1. Feeling
2. Conveying understanding

Putting self in another’s shoes and imagining how an experience must feel from their subjective point of view rather than your own.

Question 2

Parsons

Answer 2

The “father of counseling”, started the Vocational Guidance movement

Question 3

Clifford Beers

Answer 3

Wrote an expose on his own experience in a mental institution; started the mental hygiene movement

Question 4

Jesse B. Davis

Answer 4

Brought guidance into schools

Question 5

APGA

Answer 5

American Professional Guidance Association; precurser to the ACA

Question 6

Licensure vs Certification

Answer 6

Licensure is mandatory and is regulated at the state level and is the legal right to practice, certification is optional and can enhance credentials, is offered at the national level and doesn’t permit practice by itself

Question 7

ACA’s role in counseling profession

Answer 7

Professional development and continuing education, advocacy opportunities, research/journals, liability insurance for students, promotes counseling to public

Question 8

Counselor core conditions

Answer 8

Empathy, Genuineness/congruence, unconditional + regard

Question 9

SOLER

Answer 9

square, open, lean in, eye contact, relaxed

Question 10

Informed consent includes:

Answer 10

Credentials, theoretical orientation, confidentiality and limits, expectations, fees, schedule, termination process, risks vs rewards

Question 11

Difference between counseling and psychotherapy

Answer 11

Psychotherapy is generally focuses on insight and the past and is generally a longer relationship. Counseling generally focuses on change and the future and is generally a shorter relationship

Question 12

Outcome research

Answer 12

Research evaluating the effectiveness of the results of various counseling techniques to determine if improvements were made

Question 13

IS PATH WARM

Answer 13

ideation, substance use, purposelessness, anger, trapped, hopelessness, withdrawal, anxiety, recklessness, mood changes

Question 14

Assessing suicidality

Answer 14

Plan, intent, means, lethality, what is keeping them from doing it, get their commitment not to do it, document all steps

Question 15

8 CACREP educational requirements

Answer 15

• human growth & development
• career planning
• professional orientation/ethics
• research and program evaluation
• assessment and diagnosis
• culture and diversity
• the helping relationship
• group work