Counseling psychology - Answers Facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the
life span; integrates theory, research, and practice; emphasizes multicultural awareness.
Counseling psychology focus - Answers Addresses emotional, social, vocational, educational,
health-related, developmental, and organizational concerns.
Counseling psychology goals - Answers Improve well-being, alleviate distress, resolve crises,
increase functioning.
Counseling psychology uniqueness - Answers Attends to both normal developmental issues
and problems linked to physical, emotional, and mental disorders.
Remedial role - Answers Working with individuals or groups to remedy a problem.
Remedial role example - Answers Individual, couple, family, or group therapy.
Preventative role - Answers Circumventing problems before they occur.
Preventative role example - Answers Psychoeducational workshop such as drug prevention.
Educative-developmental role - Answers Helping people maximize benefit across the lifespan.
Educative-developmental examples - Answers Career counseling, human potential, personal
enhancement.
Central values of counseling psychology - Answers Strengths and optimal functioning, life-span
development and vocational growth, social justice and multicultural awareness, brief and
preventive interventions, scientist-practitioner model.
Strengths and optimal functioning - Answers All people have assets and coping abilities;
emphasizes "problems in living" rather than "illness."
Life-span development focus - Answers Whole-person perspective, developmental stage
models.
Vocational growth focus - Answers Vocational choice, career development, job problems, work
stress.
Erikson stage 1 - Answers Infancy (0-1.5); trust vs mistrust; virtue hope; event feeding.
Erikson stage 2 - Answers Early childhood (1.5-3); autonomy vs shame/doubt; virtue will; event
toilet training.
Erikson stage 3 - Answers Play age (3-5); initiative vs guilt; virtue purpose; event independence.
Erikson stage 4 - Answers School age (5-12); industry vs inferiority; virtue competency; event