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■ YAVIS- Counselors tend to prefer clients who are young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, and successful, but the most influencing factor is similar cultural backgrounds and experiences.


■ Viewing clients from the counselors perspective
o The following can be misinterpreted as “problems” in counseling, causing the therapist to see the client as resistant or non-responsive
■ Silence
■ Lack of eye contact
■ Deference to authority
o Client defensiveness or no… Continue

■ Current ethical codes are based on individualism which is a Western characteristic.


■ There is significantly less focus on the role of family, group identity, lifestyle and religious beliefs which have equal importance to individuality in other cultures.


■ The AAMFT code of ethics states “therapists do not discriminate against or refuse professional service to anyone on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin.”


■ It is ethical for counse… Continue

Outpatient Care


⋄ Techniques vary by clinician but typically include :
o cognitive-behavioral therapy
o problem-solving groups
⋄ Low success rate with heavily addicted individuals.
⋄ Moderate addicts may find that this level of treatment is enough to end their drug abuse problems.



12 Step Programs


⋄ Clients attend meetings.
⋄ Preferable after or in conjunction with some other form of drug treatment
⋄ There is the belie… Continue

AllPsych Online

http://allpsych.com/meds.html

⋄ One of the largest psychology websites on the Internet.
⋄ Holds over 920 individual, cross referenced, web pages and an estimated 3000 pages of printed material.
⋄ It is referenced by over 100 colleges and universities in ten countries.
⋄ It provides:
o Drug name
o How they work
o What they treat
o Possible side effects



SEDBASE

http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/… Continue

Transference


⋄ Feelings client projects onto the counselor.
⋄ Have to do with relationship client has experienced in the past.
⋄ Intensity of feelings has to do with unfinished elements of client’s life.
⋄ Client may identify in the therapist characteristics that are reminiscent of the person they are transferring their emotions from.
⋄ Feelings can be productively explored so client becomes aware of how they are keeping an old pattern functional in other present ti… Continue