Counseling & Helping Relationships Flashcards
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A counselor notices that a client who was sexually abused as a child begins to idealize the counselor and seeks excessive reassurance. This is BEST explained by:
Answer: Positive transference rooted in attachment needs
Idealization and reassurance-seeking often reflect positive transference, where the client projects onto the counselor the role of a wished-for protective figure.
Which of the following is the PRIMARY purpose of using minimal encouragers during a counseling session?
Answer: To communicate attentiveness and encourage the client to continue
Minimal encouragers such as 'mm-hmm,' 'go on,' or nodding signal that the counselor is listening and invite the client to elaborate.
A counselor who practices 'immediacy' in session would MOST likely:
Answer: Address the here-and-now dynamics occurring between counselor and client
Immediacy involves the counselor drawing attention to what is happening in the therapeutic relationship at that moment in order to illuminate relational patterns.
According to Gelso and Carter's tripartite model, the three components of the therapeutic relationship are:
Answer: Working alliance, transference configuration, and real relationship
Gelso and Carter identify the working alliance, the transference/countertransference configuration, and the real relationship as the three key components.
When a counselor uses a 'here-and-now' focus in Gestalt therapy, the primary goal is to:
Answer: Increase the client's awareness of present experience and contact
Gestalt therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and the quality of contact between the person and their environment as the vehicle for change.
A client from a collectivist cultural background repeatedly defers to the counselor's opinion and avoids self-disclosure. The MOST culturally sensitive response is to:
Answer: Recognize this may reflect cultural norms around hierarchy and adjust expectations accordingly
Culturally competent practice requires recognizing that deference to authority and limited self-disclosure may be culturally normative rather than pathological.
The 'working alliance' as conceptualized by Bordin consists of which three elements?
Answer: Goals, tasks, and bond
Bordin's pantheoretical model of the working alliance includes agreement on goals, agreement on tasks, and the quality of the relational bond.