Discuss the dying process in reference to acceptance of death, advance directives, palliative care, and signs and symptoms. What are your own feelings about death and dying? Describe your comfort level at being physically and emotionally present with clients and their loved ones experiencing a pending death.
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. Examples should include discussion of increased efforts to talk about death and the need to engage the complexity of death from a multidimensional framework.
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Existential counselors will help clients to focus on changing themselves when the situation is unchangeable. How might the counselor accomplish this?
a. By helping a client whose mother has died focus on the pain and turmoil of the loss. b. By helping a client with inoperable cancer fight death until fighting is no longer possible. c. By helping a client who is failing high school find the loop hole in the admission. process for college in order to get into a decent institution. d. By helping a client going through a difficult divorce examine how his choices in dealing with the divorce will impact his children in the long term.
All of the following statements about crisis response are true, EXCEPT
A. it is an immediate intervention. B. it involves diffusing a situation. C. it is usually handled solely by the school counselor. D. it involves initiating a healing process.
A common emotional gain during middle childhood is to have cognitive control of emotional arousal.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
______________________ help(s) clients differentiate past toxic relationships from the present therapeutic relationship through asking the client a series of questions.
a) Significant other history b) Interpersonal situation analysis c) Interpersonal discrimination exercises d) Transference hypothesis e) None of the above