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COUN602 Exam 1
Intro to Counseling - Exam 1 Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Guidance | "focuses on helping people make important choices that affect their lives, such as choosing a preferred lifestyle." |
| Psychotherapy | "focuses on serious problems associated with intrapsychic, internal, and personal issues and conflicts." |
| Counseling | "a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals." |
| Community counselor | a counselor who functions in multi-dimensional roles regardless of employment setting. |
| Managed care | "a contractual arrangement between a mental health professional and a third party, the managed care company, regarding the care and treatment of the first party, the client." |
| Wellness | "a way of life oriented toward optimal health and well-being in which body, mind, and spirit are integrated by the individual to live life more fully within the human and natural community." |
| Social justice | "a fundamental valuing of fairness and equity in resources, rights , and treatments for marginalized individuals and groups of people who do not share the power in society because of immigration, racial, ethnic, age, socioeconomic, religious heritage, phy |
| Advocacy | "helping clients challenge institutional and social barriers that impede academic, career, or personal social development." |
| Distance Certified Counselor credential | certification for counselors delivering online services. |
| Burnout | state of becoming emotionally or physically drained to the point that one cannot perform functions meaningfully. |
| Licensure | "statutory process by which an agency of the government, usually a state, grants permission to a person meeting predetermined qualifications to engage in a given occupation and/or use a particular title and to performs specified functions." |
| Resilience | the ability to recover relatively quickly from setbacks and trauma. |
| DSM / ICD | "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) / International Classification of Diseases manual (World Health Organization)." |
| Supervision | interactive and evaluative process in which someone with more proficiency oversees the work of someone with less knowledge and skill to enhance the professional functioning of the junior member. |
| STIPS | "format for structuring and thinking about a case: S = signs and symptoms, T = topics discussed, I = interventions used, P = progress and plan for treatment, S = any special issues of importance regarding clients (e.g. suicidality)." |
| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996) |
| PHI | protected health information. |
| Professional ethics | beliefs and behavior about conduct that guide professional practices such as those between counselors and clients. |
| Law | precise codification of governing standards that are established to ensure legal and moral justice. |
| Beneficence | doing good and preventing harm. |
| Nonmaleficence | not inflicting harm. |
| Autonomy | respecting freedom of choice and self-determination. |
| Justice | fairness |
| Fidelity | faithfulness or honoring commitments and promises |
| Veracity | truthfulness |
| Virtue ethics | "focus on the character traits of the counselor and the non-obligatory ideals to which professionals aspire. (""Am I doing what's best for my client?"")" |
| Duty to care | health providers' legal obligation not to act negligently. |
| IEP | individualized education plan |
| FERPA | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (also known as the Buckley Amendment) defines legal obligations of counselors to report suspected cases of abuse to proper authorities. |
| Confidentiality | the ethical duty to fulfill a contract or promise to clients that the information revealed during therapy will be protected from unauthorized disclosure. |
| Privileged communication | client's legal right, guaranteed by statute, that confidences originating in a therapeutic relationship safeguarded. (regulates privacy protection and confidentiality by protecting clients from having their conf comm's disclosed in court w/o permission.) |
| Duty to protect | counselor's obligation to protect the public safety which overrides any obligation to maintain client confidentiality (e.g. when client communicates intent to do harm to self or others). |
| Malpractice | "harm to a client resulting from professional negligence, where negligence is defined as the departure from acceptable professional standards." |
| Minors | children under the age of 18. |
| Culture | "any group of people who identify or associate with one another on the basis of some common purpose, need, or similarity of background." |
| RESPECTFUL framework | "R_eligious/spiritual, E_conomic class, S_exual identity, P_sychological developmental, E_thnic/racial identity, C_hronological, T_rauma and threats to well-being, F_amily, U_nique physical, L_anguage and location of residence." |
| Cultural intentionality | awareness of individual differences within each culture. |
| Racism | prejudice displayed in blatant or subtle ways due to recognized or perceived differences in the physical and psychological backgrounds of people. |
| Acculturation | the process by which a group of people give up old ways and adopt new ones. |
| Cultural bias | the tendency to think one's own culture is superior to others. |
| White privilege | "reward not based on merit, often ignored by those who have it, causing them to neglect or to be prejudiced to those who are not the same as them." |
| Racial microaggressions | "actions that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults to the target person or group: microassaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations." |
| Development | any kind of systematic change that is lifelong and cumulative. |
| Domestic elder abuse | any form of maltreatment by someone who has a special relationship with the elderly |
| Investment syndrome | the feeling of some counselors that their time and energy are better spent working with younger people who may eventually contribute to society. |
| Biopsychosocial | "influenced by biology, psychology, and society." |
| Sexism | "the belief (and the behavior resulting from that belief) that females should be treated on the basis of their sex without regard to other criteria, such as interests and abilities." |
| Coming out | "letting others know that one is gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender." |
| Spirituality | "a unique, personally meaningful experience of a transcendent dimension that is associated with wholeness and wellness" |
| Constructivist | recognizing a client worldview that includes God or spiritual realities. |
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