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1. describe the personal characteristics, attitudes, and values associated with effective counsellors.
Identity (know who they are, what they want), respect selves (can thereby give help from own self-worth/strength), Recognize own power (feel adequate with others), open to change, choices shape their lives, feel alive (life oriented choices), authentic, sincere, and honest, have sense of humor, make and admit mistakes, live in the present, appreciate influence of culture, sincere interest in the welfare of others, deeply inolved in work and get meaning from it, able to maintain healthy boundaries.
2. explain the role of values and cultural worldview in the counselling relationship and the therapeutic process.
Extremes: impose values--try not to influence. Function is not to persuade or convince clients of proper course to take, but help them assess behavior so they can tell if it is working for them (Can I accept that role?). Values still influence therapeutic goals and methods used to reach them. Intake session: client develops goals with therapist help, and they determine if they can work together. Determine how your culture/values will interact with those of the client's, and how to best support them. Cultural diversity: believe cultural awareness of self and others is essential. Be aware of emotional reactions toward other racial and ethnic groups. See the world through their eyes. Knowledge: know how culture affects self, have specific knowlede about client populations and how their families work, and aware of community resources. Skills: define and adapt goals and strategies to suit diff cultures. Become involved with minority groups outside the office.
3. identify the challenges often faced by novice counsellors.
Anxieties (deal with them, talk about them with supervisor and peers), Being and Disclosing Self (don't be too professional or chummy), Avoiding perfectionism (courageously admit imperfection. Direct energy toward helping rather than presenting false-perfection) Being honest about limitations (will not succeed with every client/population. Gain as much experience as possible) Understand silence (acknowledge and explore it. It means something, but who knows what?), Dealing with demands from clients (make expectations and boundaries clear early), Clients who lack commitment (discuss therapy process and don't promise what cannot deliver), tolerating ambiguity (will not know for sure if there is improvement), Avoid losing self in clients (don't worry too much. Agency must govern), humor (tragedy and laughter can be similar. distinguish between distracting and enhancing humor), Share responsibility with the client (mustn't take all responsibility, focus on informed consent, . Don't let them get you to direct their lives. Go out of business!) Decline to give advice (clients must learn to discover their own solutions and recognize their freedom to act), define role as counselor (it will change), use techniques appropriately (balance rigid/flexible adherence to technique), develop own style (avoid mimicry), stay alive as person and professional (avoid burnout)
counselling style
How a person counsels. Involves the combination of technique, personality trats
countertransference
the process of counselors seeing themselves in their clients, of overidentifying with their clients, or of meeting their needs through their clients.
objectivity
opposite of subjective. Something that has nothing to do with thoughts or feelings. Something that is a part of an object.
therapeutic persons
people whose combination of personal traits, application of intervention techniques, and knowledge of theories of personality and psychotherapy in such a way that they are able to help clients make changes in their lives.
value conflicts
When the values of the therapist and the client clash.
value-neutral counselling
How is this different from value-free counseling?
value-free counselling
Counselors who maintain they should keep values entirely out of their work are striving for value-free counseling.
1. Describe the personal characteristics and attitudes of an effective counsellor.
Identity (know who they are, what they want), respect selves (can thereby give help from own self-worth/strength), Recognize own power (feel adequate with others), open to change, choices shape their lives, feel alive (life oriented choices), authentic, sincere, and honest, have sense of humor, make and admit mistakes, live in the present, appreciate influence of culture, sincere interest in the welfare of others, deeply inolved in work and get meaning from it, able to maintain healthy boundaries.
2. Argue that counselling cannot be value-free by identifying the role that a counsellor’s values play in both the client-counsellor relationship and the therapeutic process.
Client counselor relationship: it would be foolish to expect that a counselor set all their values aside for therapy for at least two reasons: 1. the simple concept of setting values aside is a value-judgement. 2. If a counselor sets their values aside, isn't it likely that the client, who is likely to imitate many of the counselor's behaviors, will do the same? 3. The client's problems may be due to bad values. For example, a client who believes that alcoholism is okay even though he beats his wife and kids because of it has bad values, and the counselor should be doing all in their power to help that man step up to better values. 4. Even if we decided somehow that setting values aside was a good idea, it is probably impossible for a counselor to actually make all their comments, questions, and conversation sterile of their own values. 5. If the counselor is bent on removing values from the equation, and on not influencing the client, the therapist may immobilize themselves. 6. If I may be so bold, I think Corey is a Greek striving for his golden mean between these extremees of influencing clients to live by the therapists values and immobilizing themselves with a value-free ideal. In every field: counseling, law, medicine, and so on, we must all be striving for the best possible ideals. I understand that some clients will have a different conception of that than I have: for a Jew, to eat pork is against their value system, and I accept that. There is nothing wrong with that. However, for an alcoholic, or a porn-addict, they may believe their values and actions are acceptable, but they are not. They are detrimental to these people and society. Corey gets near the mark: I should not be trying to push clients to accept my values, yet I should certainly be striving to get them and myself to continually seek for, adopt, and live better values that what we are currently operating on. Otherwise, we are simply swinging in the dark, hoping to hit the happiness pinata. THERAPEUTIC PROCESS: See Corey on page 21-23 for more if needed.
3. Explain how the client-counsellor relationship can positively influence therapeutic outcomes.
Quite simply, a client who feels comfortable around and trusts their counsellor is likely to open up to them, share information, and openly dialogue about what the issues and possible solutions could be. If the client sees the counselor as a person who is genuine and alive, they will be more likely touched by that therapist. "We can take clients no further than we have been willing to go in our own lives." If we are vibrant, and willing to take risks and move forward, they will likely follow that example. Similarly, if we are committed to what is good and true, virtue and conducive to happiness, they are likely to adopt the same virtues.