What training issues are raised in the text about working with the GLBT population?
What will be an ideal response?
Training issues for effectively counseling GLBT clients include familiarity with terms and definitions essential for appropriate therapeutic responses, lack of adequate training in preparation for work with GLBT clients, social and cultural training and experiences. With regard to knowledge of terms and definitions for appropriate responses, the example given in the text is excellent; if a client were to ask, “Am I gay/lesbian/bisexual/queer?” it will be impossible to help the client answer such question if she or he is unfamiliar or uncomfortable with the terminology. In which case, the counselor’s response may be inappropriate and unhelpful to the client. The training issue has to do with the requirement by the council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), that CACREP-accredited counseling programs must include social and cultural diversity training and experiences in their core curriculum. Such training must include sexual and gender identity competency as an essential objective that aims to decrease homophobic prejudices and foster support for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals.
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a. Touch in therapy b. Counselor self-disclosure c. Attending a function of a client d. All are boundary extensions
In two recent court cases, students in counseling master's degree programs were dismissed from their training programs because they failed to
a. demonstrate basic listening skills b. change their religious beliefs c. learn to counsel LGBTQIQ clients effectively d. complete the required number of direct contact hours working with clients during practicum e. refer clients whose diagnoses were so severe that they lacked competence to counsel these clients
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a. Sigmund Freud b. Martin Seligman c. Albert Ellis d. Karen Horney
____________________ is the notion that treatment in residential settings occurs not only for the one hour in the therapist's office, but also for the other twenty-three hours with many people working in a therapeutic manner with the client
a. Therapeutic alliance b. Therapeutic consistency c. Therapeutic context d. Therapeutic milieu