Helping Relationships Flashcards

Counselor self-disclosure is considered most appropriate when it:

Answer: Serves the therapeutic needs of the client

Self-disclosure is appropriate when it is purposeful, relevant, and primarily serves to benefit the client rather than meet the counselor's personal needs.

Confrontation in counseling is best used to:

Answer: Point out discrepancies or contradictions in the client's statements or behaviors

Therapeutic confrontation gently but directly draws attention to inconsistencies between what clients say and do, or between their stated goals and their actions.

When a client unconsciously redirects feelings from past significant relationships onto the counselor, this is called:

Answer: Transference

Transference occurs when a client transfers feelings, attitudes, or expectations from past significant relationships onto the counselor.

Which type of question is MOST likely to encourage a client to elaborate and explore their experience?

Answer: Open question

Open questions invite clients to share freely and explore their thoughts and feelings in depth, rather than eliciting simple yes/no responses.

Summarization in counseling serves primarily to:

Answer: Review and tie together the main themes and content from a portion of the session

Summarization organizes and pulls together key themes, feelings, and content from the session to enhance understanding and show the client they have been heard.

The concept of 'working through' in the helping relationship refers to:

Answer: The ongoing process of examining and resolving recurring emotional patterns or issues in therapy

Working through involves the sustained effort to examine, understand, and resolve recurring emotional patterns, resistances, or conflicts that emerge during therapy.

Which of the following BEST describes accurate empathy in counseling?

Answer: Understanding and communicating the client's inner world from the client's perspective

Accurate empathy involves understanding the client's subjective experience from their frame of reference and communicating that understanding back to them effectively.