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Prepare for the NCE National Counseling Exam with this comprehensive study guide designed to help counseling students and professionals review essential counseling concepts and strengthen exam readiness. This resource covers human growth and development, helping relationships, assessment and testing, group counseling, career development, research methods, professional ethics, diagnosis, and other key counseling topics. Featuring organized study material and practice questions, this guide supports effective preparation for the National Counselor Examination (NCE), counseling licensure, and professional certification assessments.

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,Psychoanalytic Theory Theorists Sigmund Freud




Adlerian Theory Theorists Alfred Adler, Rudolf Dreikers




Existential Theory Theorists Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Irvin Yalom




Person-Centered Theorists Carl Rogers




Gestalt Theory Theorists Fritz and Laura Perls, Miriam and Erving Polster




Behavior Theory Theorists B.F. Skinner, Arnold Lazarus, Albert Bandura




Cognitive Behavioral Theorists A.T. Beck, Judith Beck, Donald Meichenbaum




Rational Emotive Therapy Theorists Albert Ellis




Reality Therapy Theorists William Glasser, Robert Wubbolding




Feminist Therapy Theorists Jean Baker Miller, Carolyn Zerbe Enns, Olivia Espin, Laura Brown




Solution Focused Brief Therapy Theorists Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg




Narrative Therapy Theorists Michael White, David Epston




Family Systems Therapy Theorists Alfred Adler, Murray Bowen, Virginia Satir, Carl Whitaker, Salvador Minuchin, Jay
Haley, Cloe Madanes



Psychoanalytic Therapy Description A theory of personality development, a philosophy of human nature, and a method
of psychotherapy that focuses on unconscious factors that motivate behavior.
Attention is given to the first 6 years of life as determinants of later development of
personality. Uses analysis of word association, dream and fantasy interpretation.

, Adlerian Therapy Description The 4 Stages of Adlerian Therapy
He believed that it was imperative to become intimately familiar with a person's
social context by exploring factors such as birth order, lifestyle, and parental
education. Adler believed that each person strives to belong and feel significant.
An Adlerian therapist assists individuals in comprehending the thoughts, drives, and
emotions that influence their lifestyles. People in therapy are also encouraged to
acquire a more positive and productive way of life by developing new insights, skills,
and behaviors. These goals are achieved through the four stages of Adlerian
therapy:
1. Engagement: A trusting therapeutic relationship is built between the therapist and
the person in therapy and they agree to work together to effectively address the
problem.
2. Assessment: The therapist invites the individual to speak about his or her
personal history, family history, early recollections, beliefs, feelings, and motives.
This helps to reveal the person's overall lifestyle pattern, including factors that might
initially be thought of as insignificant or irrelevant by the person in therapy.
3. Insight: The person in therapy is helped to develop new ways of thinking about
his or her situation.
4. Reorientation: The therapist encourages the individual to engage in satisfying
and effective actions that reinforce this new insight, or which facilitate further insight.


Existential Therapy Description This model stresses building therapy on the basic conditions of human existence,
such as choice, the freedom and responsibility to shape one's life, and self-
determination. It focuses on the quality of the person-to-person therapeutic
relationship.


Person-Centered Therapy Description This approach was developed in the 1940s as a nondirective reaction against
psychoanalysis. Based on a subjective view of human experiencing, it places faith
in and gives responsibility to the client in dealing with problems and concerns. Is
non-directive and often uses reflection from the therapist to assist the person in
increasing awareness and promoting self-actualization.


Gestalt Therapy An experiential therapy stressing awareness and integration; it grew in reaction
against analytic therapy. It integrates the functioning of the body and mind.



Behavior Therapy Description This approach applies the principles of learning (classical and operant conditioning)
to the resolution of specific behavioral problems. Results are subject to continual
experimentation. The methods of this approach are always in the process of
refinement.


Cognitive Behavior Therapy Description This approach gives a primary role to thinking as it influences behavior. Focuses on
teaching a person how to identify their thinking errors and replace them with positive
thinking.

Belief that people have automatic thoughts which are spontaneous negative
cognitive distortions that influence behavior

Three categories of cognitive distortions: negative thoughts about 1) self, 2) world,
3) future

Negative thoughts can be identified, evaluated, and replaced then that would
change behavior


Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Description REBT affirms human emotions and behavior are predominantly generated by ideas,
beliefs, attitudes, and thinking, never by events themselves. Consequently changing
one's thinking leads to an emotional and behavioral change.
Based upon:
• Emotions and Cognitions - focuses on the root not just the thought
• Unconditional Acceptance (UA) - accepting flaws in self and others and life
realities
• Secondary Disturbance - disturbing yourself about your disturbance
• Helpful Negative Emotions - some negative emotions are good
• Anger is inappropriate - can always be expressed in other ways


Reality Therapy This short-term approach is based on choice theory and focuses on the client
assuming responsibility in the present. Through the therapeutic process, the client is
able to learn more effective ways of meeting her or his needs.

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