NTDT330 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Alternative Medicine, Classical Conditioning, Clinical Psychology

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Nutrition and Dietetics
• Course: NTDT330
• Professor: Baker Sandra

Document Summary

Counseling as science and art: science - assess technique/efficacy, skills that allow counselor to individualize needs of client. Approach to counseling: directive = used as a manager; teacher, non directive = client leads. Humans possess an inherent ability to maintain and enhance themselves which moves them toward growth. Client-centered counseling releases the inherent potentials and capacities in each human. Empathy - the ability to feel what the client feels. Respect - acceptance, unconditional positive regard for the client. > believes all humans want to do better. > people have ability to maintain and enhance. > originator of the client-centered approach to counseling. > he felt that effective therapists must be genuine, accepting, and empathic rather than diagnosis, advice, and persuasion. > for eliciting behavior change by helping client explore ambivalence. > client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping the client to explore ambivalence. > most helpful in the precontemplation and contemplation stages of change.