Counseling Children 9e Chapters 1 - 11 (Henderson and Thompson)

Vocabulary flashcards covering fundamental counseling theories, ethics, and practices from the Henderson & Thompson text study guide.

Key child development needs identified by Brazelton and Greenspan, including physical protection, nurturing relationships, and opportunities to learn.

Irreducible Needs

A relationship between a counselor and client in which the counselor helps the client resolve a problem.

Counseling

The ability to cope well with negative circumstances, supported by personal strength categories such as a sense of purpose.

Resilience

A five-level motivation theory ordered as physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

The process of becoming like another culture.

Acculturation

All the behavior and attitudes that are learned, shared, and transmitted among group members.

Culture

The sharing of personal information by a counselor, which Poppen and Thompson concluded is most beneficial when maintaining a here-and-now focus.

Counselor Self-Disclosure

Lazarus's framework for understanding client problems across multimodal categories.

BASIC ID

The standard sequence of counseling events: build rapport, identify problems, build commitment, and identify alternative behaviors and possible outcomes.

General Counseling Sequence

A method in counseling that provides for levels of outcome evaluation.

Goal Attainment Scaling

Professional standards that provide the minimum acceptable societal guidelines.

Legal Standards

A principle ethic in the counseling profession focused on acting in the best interest of the client.

Beneficence

A virtue ethic in the counseling profession reflecting wisdom, caution, and thoughtful judgment.

Prudence

The legal mandate requiring counselors to report child abuse or neglect in all states, even though the report breaches confidentiality.

Mandatory Reporting Exception

The central objective of psychoanalytic therapy, which is to make the unconscious conscious.

Psychoanalytic Primary Goal

The Freudian structural component of personality representing a person's moral standards.

Superego

A defense mechanism wherein individuals attribute to others the traits or feelings they fail to recognize in themselves.

Projection

A therapeutic process modified by Carkhuff consisting of three sequential phases: self-exploration, understanding, and goal-directed action.

Person-Centered Helping Model

A counseling technique that puts into words the feeling tone of what the client has expressed.

Reflection

The counseling stages outlined in Gestalt therapy: 1) phony layer, 2) phobic layer, 3) impasse layer, 4) implosion, and 5) explosion.

Gestalt Five Layers

The theory that individuals are products of their environments and select behaviors based on anticipated consequences.

Behaviorism View of Human Nature

A four-step analytical sequence: identify problem category, identify problem type, determine cause, and select a problem solution.

Behavior Analysis Steps

Strengthening a target behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus, such as stopping a seat belt buzzer.

Negative Reinforcement

A self-concept in Reality Therapy characterized by the belief 'I can't, I'm no good.'

Failure Identity

In William Glasser's view, individuals who can fulfill their needs without infringing on the rights of others.

Adjusted People (Glasser)

A framework taught by Glasser emphasizing that individuals can control only their own behavior.

Choice Theory

William Glasser's conceptualization of mental illness as irresponsibility.

Mental Illness (Glasser Definition)

A counseling model where a future orientation takes precedence over a present orientation, helping clients build on personal successes.

Solution-Focused Brief Counseling Orientation

A solution-focused intervention phrased as: 'If something happened overnight and your problems were solved…'

The Miracle Question

Adlerian theory's classification of goals driving children's misbehavior: revenge, attention, inadequacy, and power.

Four Goals of Misbehavior

An individual's community feeling and empathy, considered by Adler to be a reliable barometer of mental health.

Social Interest

The three necessary elements for counseling identified by Mosak and Mosak: faith, hope, and love.

Mosak and Mosak Factors