ABGC BOARDS FINAL EXAMS ALL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Non-expressive styles: - ✔✔very articulate, but in a highly intellectual way; although
they feel emotions, they deny having them
✔✔Reserved style: - ✔✔express their feelings to a limited extent but do not allow their
full expression
✔✔Explosive style - ✔✔patients express everything that they are feeling, sometimes in
overly intense ways
✔✔Transference - ✔✔an unconscious way that a patient relates to the genetic
counselor
✔✔Countertransference - ✔✔(Counselor): the counselor's unconscious ways of relating
to patients based on the counselors history of relating to others
✔✔Congruence (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔personally integrated, grounded,
genuine, consistent and stable so trust can be developed and maintained
✔✔Shared language (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔certain words, catch phrase, a
secret code or the use of a specific metaphor that continues from visit to visit
✔✔Trackin (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔describing the child's behavior in a way that
does not imply judgment or meaning
✔✔Restating content (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔restating what the patient shares
will create a connection and help clarify the meaning for both parties
✔✔Reciprocity (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔responding to a positive action with
another positive action, rewarding kind actions. In response to friendly actions, people
, are frequently much nicer and much more cooperative than predicted by the self-
interest model; conversely, in response to hostile actions they are frequently much more
nasty and even brutal.
✔✔Advice giving(Counseling techniques) - ✔✔counselor attempts to directly influence
patients by offering suggestions, recommendations or opinions about what they should
do
✔✔Non-judgmental reflection (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔restate what the patient has
said without sounding like a parrot. Reflections can go to a deeper level, expressing
unstated sentiments that were "heard"
✔✔Unconditional positive regard - ✔✔accepting and respecting the counselee as a
complete individual, including strengths, weaknesses, and a full range of feelings and
behaviors. Unconditional does not have to be with respect to specific behaviors -
counselor recognizes these and addresses them in an appropriate manner
✔✔Empathy: - ✔✔understanding, insofar as possible, of the counselee's lived reality
✔✔Genuinenes - ✔✔counselor's openness to her own emotional experiences in the
interaction with the counselee, and a modulated but honest expression of this in her
interactions with the counselee
✔✔counselor attitudes
Unconditional positive regard: - ✔✔a positive view of patients, the belief that patients
are coping to the best of their ability, a total respect for who they are as individuals,
acceptance of patient strengths and weaknesses, a belief that patients have the
capacity for self direction and a focus on the present moment and experience
✔✔counselor attitudes empathy - ✔✔strives to understand the patients reality, to get
into the world of the patient, and to see things from the patient's perspective
✔✔Counselor genuineness: - ✔✔counselor establishes an open relationship with the
patient, is open to his or her own emotional reactions to the patient and establishes a
safe setting where patients are free to self-actualize.
✔✔Psychological attending: - ✔✔sensing the experiences, as much as possible,
through the eyes of the patient rather than your own
✔✔Physical attending - ✔✔the way you use your body to communicate your
understanding to the patient
✔✔Strategies for reluctant and resistant patients - ✔✔Emotive: reflect patient feelings
abut being coerced (anger, resentment)
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Non-expressive styles: - ✔✔very articulate, but in a highly intellectual way; although
they feel emotions, they deny having them
✔✔Reserved style: - ✔✔express their feelings to a limited extent but do not allow their
full expression
✔✔Explosive style - ✔✔patients express everything that they are feeling, sometimes in
overly intense ways
✔✔Transference - ✔✔an unconscious way that a patient relates to the genetic
counselor
✔✔Countertransference - ✔✔(Counselor): the counselor's unconscious ways of relating
to patients based on the counselors history of relating to others
✔✔Congruence (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔personally integrated, grounded,
genuine, consistent and stable so trust can be developed and maintained
✔✔Shared language (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔certain words, catch phrase, a
secret code or the use of a specific metaphor that continues from visit to visit
✔✔Trackin (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔describing the child's behavior in a way that
does not imply judgment or meaning
✔✔Restating content (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔restating what the patient shares
will create a connection and help clarify the meaning for both parties
✔✔Reciprocity (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔responding to a positive action with
another positive action, rewarding kind actions. In response to friendly actions, people
, are frequently much nicer and much more cooperative than predicted by the self-
interest model; conversely, in response to hostile actions they are frequently much more
nasty and even brutal.
✔✔Advice giving(Counseling techniques) - ✔✔counselor attempts to directly influence
patients by offering suggestions, recommendations or opinions about what they should
do
✔✔Non-judgmental reflection (Counseling techniques) - ✔✔restate what the patient has
said without sounding like a parrot. Reflections can go to a deeper level, expressing
unstated sentiments that were "heard"
✔✔Unconditional positive regard - ✔✔accepting and respecting the counselee as a
complete individual, including strengths, weaknesses, and a full range of feelings and
behaviors. Unconditional does not have to be with respect to specific behaviors -
counselor recognizes these and addresses them in an appropriate manner
✔✔Empathy: - ✔✔understanding, insofar as possible, of the counselee's lived reality
✔✔Genuinenes - ✔✔counselor's openness to her own emotional experiences in the
interaction with the counselee, and a modulated but honest expression of this in her
interactions with the counselee
✔✔counselor attitudes
Unconditional positive regard: - ✔✔a positive view of patients, the belief that patients
are coping to the best of their ability, a total respect for who they are as individuals,
acceptance of patient strengths and weaknesses, a belief that patients have the
capacity for self direction and a focus on the present moment and experience
✔✔counselor attitudes empathy - ✔✔strives to understand the patients reality, to get
into the world of the patient, and to see things from the patient's perspective
✔✔Counselor genuineness: - ✔✔counselor establishes an open relationship with the
patient, is open to his or her own emotional reactions to the patient and establishes a
safe setting where patients are free to self-actualize.
✔✔Psychological attending: - ✔✔sensing the experiences, as much as possible,
through the eyes of the patient rather than your own
✔✔Physical attending - ✔✔the way you use your body to communicate your
understanding to the patient
✔✔Strategies for reluctant and resistant patients - ✔✔Emotive: reflect patient feelings
abut being coerced (anger, resentment)
