Key Terms- AMFTRB. Updated 2024/2025, 100% Correct.
Competencies
Detailed lists of the knowledge and skill professionals need to effectively do their job
Counseling Theories
Provide powerful lenses through which to view clients' situations and identify the most expedient means to resolve their ...
Detailed lists of the knowledge and skill professionals need to effectively do their job
Counseling Theories
Provide powerful lenses through which to view clients' situations and identify the most expedient means
to resolve their concerns
Therapeutic Presence
A quality of self considered to have intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal elements, including
elements of empathy, compassion, charisma, spirituality, transpersonal communication, patient
responsiveness, optimism, and expectancies
Diversity
Refers to client's ethnicity, age, gender, socio-economic status, physical and mental ability, sexual
orientation, religious beliefs, language, etc.
Case Conceptualization
Technical term of the therapeutic art of viewing. Assessment of clients using therapy theories
Treatment Plans
General set of directions for how to address clients concerns
Common Factors
Similarities across models that are critical change element
Client Characteristics
Include the client's motivation to change, attitude about therapy and change, commitment to change,
personal strengths and resources (cognitive, emotional, social, financial, spiritual), and duration of
complaints
Extratherapeutic factors
Include social support, community involvement, and fortuitous life events
Placebo Effect
Refers to the client's belief that counseling will be helpful to them in resolving their problem
Evidence Based Therapies
Counseling models that were developed through research and randomized clinical trials
, Evidence Based Practices
Knowing the evidence base related to a specific client's problem and contextual issues and using that
information to make treatment decisions
Law
Set by the local, state, or federal government, in the form legislation, or by judges, whose rulings in some
cases establish specific responsibilities for professionals
Ethics
Codes that go beyond the rules of the law, and define in more detail the expectations of family therapists
Fidelity
An ethical principle that refers to keeping promises and upholding loyalty
Justice
An ethical principle that refers to treating people fairly
Autonomy
An ethical principle that refers to the right of clients to make their own decisions and act independently
Beneficence
An ethical principle that refers to the therapist's obligation to actively work to benefit clients
Nonmaleficence
An ethical principle that refers to avoiding harm to clients or others
Standard of Care
Refers to what most people with the same training and experience are doing within the profession
Confidentiality
Refers to client information which cannot be shared with outside others unless written release or state
law permits
Mandated Reporting
Laws that require counselors to report suspected child abuse and neglect, elder abuse and neglect,
dependent adult abuse, serious suicidal threats, homicidal threats, and threats to personal property
Homeostasis
Refers to the unique set of behavioral, emotional, and interactional norms that create stability for the
family (or other social group)
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