LCDC – Counseling Study pack
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Active Listening - ✔✔-Involves attending skills and reflective listening. The counselor will be able to
connect with the client and be able to
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LCDC – Counseling Study pack
Questions and answers, rated A+.
graded A
Active Listening - ✔✔-Involves attending skills and reflective listening. The counselor will be able to
connect with the client and be able to reflect the client's emotions, thoughts, and attitudes. By providing
reflection to the addict, the counselor can interject an observing perspective that may be lacking.
Empathy - ✔✔-The ability to perceive another person's experience and communicate that perception
back to the person.
Concreteness - ✔✔-A process by which the counselor relates the vague aspects of the client in direct
expression of feelings and experiences in specific concrete terms to assist the client to develop more
functional coping skills.
Paraphrasing - ✔✔-Includes the therapeutic qualities of empathy and warmth. __________ refers to a
counselor's verbal response that rephrases the essence of the client's message. it allows the client to
hear what he or she has just said, either in parroted form or with added clarity. This interactive process
can increase trust and can reduce resistance.
Reflecting - ✔✔-Occurs when the counselor restates content that had generated emotion from the
client - it is a __________ of feeling. __________ of feeling captures and expresses to the client the core
of what he or she is feeling. It allows the client to be aware of his or her own expressed emotions and
how the counselor understood his or her emotional message. The counselor should be careful not to
interpret the client's feelings. When ________ feelings, the counselor remains neutral and
nonjudgmental by not offering opinions, judgements, or advice.
Simplifying - ✔✔-Involves the reflection and restatement of what the client said. It removes confusion,
avoids intellectualizations and convoluted (difficult to understand) explanations, and can help the client
stay focused on concerns, feelings, and problems in the here and now.
Summarizing - ✔✔-Is the tying together of the main points, themes, and issues presented by clients
during part or all of a session.
Attending - ✔✔-Refers to ways in which the clinician demonstrates that she/he is listening to the client
through the use of cues.
Probing - ✔✔-Involves asking open-ended questions to clarify information and to help the client toward
a new understanding.
Reframing - ✔✔-Consists of offering a different perspective on a situation the client is facing.
Exploring Alternatives - ✔✔-Working with the client to examine various options.
Self-disclosure - ✔✔-When the clinician shares something about him/herself for the benefit of the
client.
Confrontation - ✔✔-Involves the use of a statement or question to raise some discrepancy within the
client.
Immediacy - ✔✔-Consists of dealing openly with issues that are present in the clinical relationship.
Corey and Corey (2002) indicated - ✔✔-Effective helpers have a healthy self-concept, hold positive
beliefs about people, are aware and respectful of cultural differences, have the ability to listen and
understand, and posses empathy, congruence, warmth, compassion, genuiness, and positive regard.
Outpatient Treatment - ✔✔-These programs are organized nonresidential treatment services in which
the client visits the clinic at least once a week and up to several hours per week. There may be a number
of activities such as individual, group, family, or didactic therapies. The functions that may be served by
outpatient facilities include:
--- A setting in which the entire course of treatment takes place without removal from the community or
disruption of the client's occupational status
--- Can be an initial point of contact for many individuals who may enter treatment as a walk-in or
because the agency is known to an employer or family member
--- Aftercare can be provided to clients referred upon discharge from an inpatient program
Intensive Outpatient (IOPs) or internsive outpatient treatment programs (IOTPs) - ✔✔-A more
structured setting in which the client is present at the facility from about 10 to 30 hours per week.
IOPs/IOTPs fill a gap between outpatient and inpatient care while costing about half of residential
treatment. These programs also allow clients to continue in work and family life, they promote bonding
among clients, and they allow clients to practice relapse-prevention techniques in real-life situations.
Inpatient treatment programs - ✔✔-Involves a live-in setting with a stay of 4 weeks and includes
therapeutic communities with a stay from 4 to 24 months. Inpatient programs may be medical or nonmedical, and may or may not include a detoxification unit. Individual, group, and family treatment may
occur as well as education and relapse prevention training.
Chemical substitution program such as methadone-maintenance - ✔✔-The systematic dispensation of a
legal drug that enables the addicted client to attain social stability, stop criminal activity, and enter the
educational and occupational world. Methadone maintenance is effective because it is administered
orally; in controlled doses; can be administered once a day; and the ruses, highs, and lows are absent,
and the client can function appropriately in society.
Yalom's 1 of 11 therapeutic factors of group treatment - Instillation of hope - ✔✔-By watching other
group members get better, clients begin to believe that they can get better also.
Yalom's 1 of 11 therapeutic factors of group treatment - Universality - ✔✔-Clients often enter therapy
feeling that they are all alone. In the group, clients hear others share similar problems, concerns,
experiences, and other aspects of their lives, and they begin to feel that they are not alone.
Yalom's 1 of 11 therapeutic factors of group treatment - Imparting of Information - ✔✔-Clients can learn
more about their illness, symptoms, and behavior from education provided by the group therapist. They
might also receive advice and direct guidance from peers about how to deal with their problems.
Yalom's 1 of 11 therapeutic factors of group treatment - Altruism - ✔✔-Clients often enter treatment
with the belief that they have nothing of value to offer others. In groups, clients learn that they are
capable of helping other. Their self-esteem is enhanced as a result of helping others and they become
less absorbed in their problems.
Yalom's 1 of 11 therapeutic factors of group treatment - The corrective recapitulation of the primary
family group - ✔✔-The group therapy situation resembles the early family in a number of ways; thus
clients have the tendency to re-experience old family conflicts within the group. The group therapist
challenges any maladaptive behavior patterns a
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