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What is the focus of lifespan development?
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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. |
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What are the Three Central Roles?
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• Remedial
• Preventative • Educative-Developmental |
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How man counseling sessions is considered brief?
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12-15
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What are Counseling goals?
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Educative, addresses
situational problems, problem-solving at a conscious level. |
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Why APA-Accredited Programs?
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• 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. |
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What is Applied Psychology?
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Counseling,
Industrial/Organizational, Clinical, School, & Community |
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How are counselors effective?
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Counselors are effective only if they are selfaware
and able to use themselves as the instruments through which change occurs. |
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What is a prerequisite to care giving?
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Self-care
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What is the Personal Characteristics Model?
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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. |
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A Counselor’s Values in Theory and Practice.
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• 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? |
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Locus of Control
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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). |
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Locus of Responsibility
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Describes beliefs about
where responsibility for a problem lies, generally in terms of attributing responsibility to either the individual or the system. |