Core Counseling Attributes Flashcards
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A culturally diverse client seems reluctant to discuss personal matters openly. Applying cultural humility, the counselor should first:
Answer: Explore how the client's cultural background influences their comfort with self-disclosure
Cultural humility requires counselors to explore the client's own cultural framework, including norms around privacy and self-disclosure, before making assumptions.
Which of the following is an example of immediacy as a counseling skill?
Answer: The counselor commenting on the present therapeutic relationship dynamic
Immediacy involves the counselor openly discussing what is happening in the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship, addressing patterns or tensions as they emerge.
A counselor working with a client from a collectivist culture keeps suggesting the client prioritize their own needs over family obligations. This represents a failure in:
Answer: Cultural humility and awareness of worldview differences
Imposing individualistic values on a client from a collectivist culture reflects a worldview mismatch and a lack of cultural humility.
Which microskill involves restating the essence of what a client has said using different words to check understanding?
Answer: Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing restates the content of the client's communication in the counselor's own words to demonstrate understanding and invite clarification.
During a third session, a client says, 'I feel like you don't really listen to me.' The counselor's most therapeutically sound response is to:
Answer: Acknowledge the client's perception and explore what led to this feeling
Acknowledging the client's perception without defensiveness and exploring its meaning reflects immediacy and strengthens the therapeutic alliance.
The concept of 'presence' in humanistic counseling refers to:
Answer: The counselor's full, authentic engagement with the client in the moment
Therapeutic presence involves the counselor being fully available—mentally, emotionally, and physically—to the client's experience in each moment.
A counselor notices they feel irritated when a client repeatedly blames others for their problems. The most professionally appropriate response is to:
Answer: Use the countertransference as data for self-reflection and possible supervision
Counselors are expected to recognize and use countertransference reactions as clinical information through self-reflection and supervision rather than ignoring or acting on them.