Key Concepts in Counseling and Social Work

advocacy

involves helping clients challenge institutional and social barriers that impede academic, career, or personal-social development

counselling

the skilled and principled use of relationship to facilitate self-knowledge, emotional acceptance and growth, and the optimal development of personal resources, often centres in a) development issues b) overcoming specific problems c) coping better with a crisis situation d) improving relationships with others or e) overcoming feelings associated with inner conflicts

guidance

process of helping people make important choices that affect their lives

leadership

consists of practices such as completing performance reviews, communicating compensation philosophies and practices, addressing colleagues' performance problems, and being accountable for team camaraderie and productivity

millennium trends

violence, trauma, and crises; managed care; wellness; social justice; technology; leadership; and identity

positive psychology

the study of strength and virtue

psychologist

expert in psychology (holds a PhD or master's degree)

psychotherapy

traditionally focused on serious problems associated with intrapsychic, internal, and personal issues and conflicts, emphasized a) the past more than the present b) insight more than change c) the detachment of the therapist and d) the therapist's role as an expert

social justice

reflects a fundamental valuing of fairness and equity in resources, rights and treatment for marginalized individuals and groups of people who do not share the power in society because of their immigration, racial, ethnic, age, socioeconomic, religious heritage, physical abilities, or sexual orientation status groups

social work

a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups, and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being, concerned with broader social issues such as poverty, unemployment and domestic violence

technology-based counselling

counselling administered via phone call or video streaming

wellness

involves many aspects of life, including the physical, intellectual, social psychological, emotional, and environmental facets; 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