Couseling Fm 6-22 App B

Front 1

What are some of the techniques leaders may use during the directive approach to counseling?

Back 1

- Corrective training
- Commanding

Front 2

What FM covers Counseling

Back 2

FM 6-22 Appendix B (Army Training Publication (ATP) 6-22.4: Coaching, Counseling, and Mentorship)

Front 3

What are the characteristics of effective counseling?

Back 3

1. Purpose: Clearly define the purpose of the counseling.
2. Flexibility: Fit the counseling style to the character of each subordinate and to the relationship desired.
3. Respect: View subordinates as unique, complex individuals, each with a distinct set of values, beliefs, and attitudes.
4. Communication: Establish open, two-way communication with subordinates using spoken language, nonverbal actions, gestures, and body language. Effective counselors listen more than they speak.
5. Support: Encourage subordinates through actions while guiding them through their problems.

Front 4

What are the three approaches to counseling

Back 4

1. Directive
2. Non-directive
3. Combined

Front 5

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Directive counseling.

Back 5

Advantages:
- Quickest method
- Good for people who need clear, concise direction
- Allows counselors to active use their experience

Disadvantages:
- Doesn't encourage subordinates to be part of the solution
- Tends to treat symptoms, not problems
- Tends to discourage subordinates from talking freely
- Solution is the counselor's, not the subordinate's

Front 6

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Non-Directive counseling

Back 6

Advantages:
- Encourages maturity
- Encourages open communication
- Develops personal responsibility

Disadvantages:
- More time-consuming
- Requires greatest counselor skill

Front 7

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Combined counseling.

Back 7

Advantages:
- Moderately quick
- Encourages maturity
- Encourages open communication
- Allows counselors to actively use their experience

Disadvantages:
- May take too much time for some situations

Front 8

What are the major categories of developmental counseling?

Back 8

- Event-oriented counseling
- Performance counseling
- Professional growth counseling

Front 9

What are some examples of Event counseling

Back 9

- Instances of superior or substandard performance
- Reception and integration counseling
- Crisis counseling
- Referral counseling
- Promotion counseling
- Separation counseling

Front 10

What areas would you cover in reception and integration counseling?

Back 10

- Chain of Command famaliarization
- Organizational standards
- Seciroty and safety issues
- NCO Support Channel
- On- and off-duty conduct
- Personnel, clothing issue
- Organizational history, structure and mission
- Soldier programs within the organization
- Off limits and danger areas
- Functions and locations of support activities
- Recreational, educational, cultural, and historical opportunities
- Foreign nation or host nation orientation

Front 11

What are the four steps of the counseling process?

Back 11

1. Identify the need for counseling
2. Prepare for counseling
3. Conduct counseling
4. Follow up

Front 12

What are the steps required to prepare for counseling?

Back 12

- Select a suitable place
- Schedule the time
- Notify the subordinate well in advance
- Organize information
- Outline the counseling session components
- Plan your counseling strategy
- Establish the right atmosphere

Front 13

A counseling session consists of what four basic components

Back 13

1. Opening the session
2. Discussing the issues
3. Developing the plan of action
4. Recording and closing the session

Front 14

What is Counseling?

Back 14

Counseling is the process used by leaders to review with a subordinate the subordinate's demonstrated performance and potential.

Front 15

What are some of the counseling techniques leaders may explore during the nondirective or combined counseling approaches?

Back 15

- Suggesting alternatives
- Recommending
- Persuading
- Advising

Front 16

How many human needs are there

Back 16

Four:
1. Physical
2. Social
3. Security
4. Higher (Spiritual

Front 17

What is tact?

Back 17

A keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others and to avoid offense.

Front 18

What is the objective of counseling?

Back 18

For one person to help another.

Front 19

What are the 7 steps to problem solving?

Back 19

1. Identify the problem
2. Gather information
3. Develop criteria
4. Generate possible solutions
5. Analyze possible solutions
6. Compare possible solutions
7. Make and implement a decision

Front 20

What is communication?

Back 20

The flow or exchange of informtation and ideas from one person to another.

Front 21

What causes most problems?

Back 21

Faulty communication

Front 22

Leaders should seek to develop and improve what leader counseling skills?

Back 22

1. Active listening
2. Responding
3. Questioning

Front 23

To insure that they understand the message sent to them, the receiver should send what back to the transmitter?

Back 23

Feedback

Front 24

What are the qualities of an effective counselor?

Back 24

- Respect for subordinates
- Awareness (self/cultural)
- Credibility
- Empathy

Front 25

What are the three important parts of effective communication?

Back 25

1. Message
2. Content
3. Context

Front 26

Name some of the conditions that make for good discipline?

Back 26

- High performance standards
- Loyalty to superiors and subordinates
- Competitive activities
- Tough training
- Open channel of communications

Front 27

What course of action should a supervisor take when a subordinate has been performing below his/her usual standards?

Back 27

- Counsel about the performance
- Attempt to define the problem with the Soldier
- Afford opportunity and time to solve the problem
- Make a written statement of counseling

Front 28

What are the stressors that influence behavior?

Back 28

- Fear
- Hunger
- Illness
- Anxiety
- Fatigue

Front 29

By neglecting the welfare of your Soldiers, you will probably do what?

Back 29

Lose their respect and loyal cooperation.

Front 30

What form is used for counseling?

Back 30

DA 4856 E

Front 31

When is the Directive approach to counseling most likely to be used?

Back 31

- When time is short
- When the leader knows what to do
- When the Soldier has limited problem-solving abilities

Front 32

Is it a requirement that a leader counsel his/her subordinates

Back 32

Yes. A leader who neglects to counsel his subordinates is negligent in the performance of his duty.

Front 33

Is performance counseling limited to poor performance?

Back 33

No. Counseling may also be for good performance.