Counseling & Therapy

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe use of cognitive therapy including the goals, the theoretical concepts, the components of treatment plans, and the common applications, and the related counseling skills.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to ask effective questions including use of reflection of feelings responses, reflection of meaning responses, and strategies for challenging responses.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe use of rational emotive counseling therapies including the goals, the theoretical concepts, the components of treatment plans, the common applications, and the related counseling skills.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the use of individual psychological theories including the basic concepts, how these theories are used in treatment, how evaluation is conducted, and how these theories are used in related applications including assessment, diagnostic groups, and multicultural groups.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the important attending skills, affective messages, and their effects required for effective counseling.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe use of person-centered counseling therapies including the goals, the theoretical concepts, the components of treatment plans, the common applications, and the related counseling skills.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the important communication skills and patterns essential for professional and effective counseling.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain techniques for conceptualizing the client's issues establishing client goals, and overcoming client resistance.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain factors associated with becoming a professional counselor including establishing a professional identity, maintaining legal and ethical standards, getting the most out of clinical supervision, using professional resources, and maintaining personal health and well-being.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the factors that impact the success of any treatment therapy including client-related factors, counselor-related factors, and factors related to the therapeutic setting and therapeutic alliance.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe emerging emotion- and sensation-focused therapies including narrative therapy, and solution-focused brief therapy, feminist therapy.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe use of existential psychotherapy including the goals, the theoretical concepts, the components of treatment plans, and the common applications.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe use of Gestalt therapy including the goals, the theoretical concepts, the components of treatment plans, the common applications, and the related counseling skills.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the required characteristics, skills, and credentials for successful individuals in helping professions.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the important factors that lead to an optimal and professional helping relationship.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain effective listening and its uses and potential barriers when counseling.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to manage a counseling session including techniques to use in the first interview, in judging client reactions, in subsequent sessions, in terminating a session, and in terminating clients.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe use of emotion-focused treatments including the treatment goals, the components of humanistic treatment systems, and the commonly used models of humanistic psychotherapies.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe use of psychological theories and models related to analytical psychology, ego psychology, object relations, and self psychology including basic goals, how these theories are used in treatment, and major theorists and models.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain techniques for working with a client's feelings, behaviors, beliefs, thoughts, language, symbolic meanings, stories, interactional patterns, and cultural and social systems.