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What is the focus of lifespan development?
Healthy aspects and strengths of the client (individual, couple,
family, group, system, organization), environmental/situational
influences (context of culture, gender, and lifestyle issues), and
the role of career and vocation on individual development and
functioning.
What are the Three Central Roles?
• Remedial
• Preventative
• Educative-Developmental
How man counseling sessions is considered brief?
12-15
What are Counseling goals?
Educative, addresses
situational problems, problem-solving at a
conscious level.
Why APA-Accredited Programs?
• Easier to become licensed as a psychologist.
• Increase range of eligible employment
opportunities.
• Determines membership in some
professional organizations.
• May determine if clients’ insurance company
will reimburse for services.
What is Applied Psychology?
Counseling,
Industrial/Organizational, Clinical, School, &
Community
How are counselors effective?
Counselors are effective only if they are selfaware
and able to use themselves as the
instruments through which change occurs.
What is a prerequisite to care giving?
Self-care
What is the Personal Characteristics Model?
Meier and Davis (2001) suggest that helpers who
are the most effective strive to apply the four
following principles to assess characteristics and
traits that impact their own ability to assist others
and may reflect their own level of health and
wellness.
A Counselor’s Values in Theory and Practice.
• Everyone has a set of beliefs that guides decisions,
determines one’s ability to appreciate the people
and things in the environment, governs conscience,
and influences perceptions of others.
• Can counselors or therapists avoid conveying their
values to their clients?
Locus of Control
Beliefs about the degree to
which a person can influence his/her own life.
Ranges from internal (where the person can exert
control) to external (where external factors control
the individual).
Locus of Responsibility
Describes beliefs about
where responsibility for a problem lies, generally in
terms of attributing responsibility to either the
individual or the system.