NCE Prep: Counseling Skills and Interventions verified/passed 2024

NCE Prep: Counseling Skills and InterventionsEmpathetic understanding - correct answer Able to experience client and their world Congruence - correct answer Authentic, integrated- agreement between values and behavior Unconditional positive regard - correct answer Rogerian, accepting the client , no judgement or evaluation Concreteness - correct answer Speaking in specific terms rather than generalizations. Self-disclosure - correct answer Counselor sharing relevant experiences, relative to client's issues. Attending - correct answer Listening, eye contact non verbals and being psychologically present with client. Restatement - correct answer Repeating or paraphrasing on the COGNITIVE content Reflection - correct answer Emphasis on AFFECTIVE or the feeling part of the statement. Paraphrasing - correct answer Restating the client message to show or gain understanding. Summarize - correct answer Bringing together several ideas or feelings, usually after a lengthy discussion. Silence - correct answer Can be wait time, boredom, thinking, waiting for counselor to lead. Confrontation - correct answer When counselor identifies discrepancies between values and actions, Treatment Planning - correct answer Interventions, client considerations include cultural background age along with the diagnosis influence treatment. Whether selection psychodynamic or cognitive behavioral methods the interventions look different. The question - correct answer Alfred Adler, what would be different if you were well? Cognitive therapy (Beck) - correct answer Self-talk, internal dialogue - we can change thoughts and with that, feelings then behaviors. Theory of reciprocal inhibition (Wolpe) - correct answer Suggests a person cannot be both anxious and relaxed at the same time. Systematic desensitization (Wolpe) - correct answer Reduce anxiety by associating negative stimuli with positive events. ie: Negative images paired with muscle relaxation. Stress inoculation ( Meichenbaum) - correct answer Shift from self-defeating thoughts to coping ones. Stress inoculation is practicing positive or reinforcing self-statements. Token economy - correct answer Use of rewards with points, tokens to increase desired behaviors. Paradoxical intention - correct answer Clients urged to "intend" that which they fear or wish to change ie: smoking, insomnia arguing. Implosive therapy - correct answer Reduce anxiety bu presenting vivid cues with the hope it will diminish with repeated exposure and no threat experienced. Thought stopping - correct answer Consciously stopping the thought when it occurs.