Discuss why caring for your working self is important as a counselor. How do you believe you will achieve this?
What will be an ideal response?
?Our work serves a critical function in how we define ourselves. It provides a role for us in the world. When people introduce themselves to others, they will most often start by stating what they do for a living.
?For some of us, our work provides our living, for others our work is distinct from the job we do to get paid. In this sense, while a job is what pays for food and shelter, work is our true vocation, what we are meant to do in the world.
?As counselors, each of us has to determine to what degree our work is simply a job or is congruent with our own deeper life meanings. As you contemplate a career as a professional counselor, is this work your primary calling or simply a means to making a living? Will this career satisfy you on both of those levels?
?There are many questions attendant to the ways you define your working self. Will you work privately or for a public agency or school? How much money do you require from your work? What ethical principles guide the kind of counseling work you will do and the workplace in which you choose to do your work? What are your real reasons for doing this work?
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The general stages of organizational development
A. Usually begin with a successful action that shows the members that they have everything they really need to succeed. B. Include loss of energy, loss of members, and floundering as a normal stage. C. Need to be completed with the original members, recognizing that new members do not have enough history for effective involvement. D. Must continue to create new work; the work of the organization is never really done.
The major reason that organizations use temporary workers (temps) is to:
a. Keep up to date with new requirements b. Reduce costs c. Reduce long-term employees d. Use available resources
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Overall, parents and family members support LGBQ couples, even when there are no children involved. 2. Even though a same-sex couple has a strong relationship, if there is no social support and recognition of their relationship they are at risk for increased relationship conflict. 3. Research suggests that higher levels of conflict in same-sex couples has less of an impact than conflict in a heterosexual couple because the same-sex couple has a “I got your back” mentality. 4. Equality in same-sex relationships is more of a myth than a reality.
Which of the following is an example of one of the processes of change in the transtheoretical model of change?
(a) Preparation (b) Helping relationships (c) Maladaptive cognitions (d) Maintenance