Answer each of the questions below:

• What is the difference between a professional helper, generalist human service worker, and nonprofessional helper?
• How would you decide whether to go to a psychiatrist, psychologist, mental health counselor, social worker, psychiatric nurse, or substance abuse counselor? How would you go about finding a mental health professional? What if you just moved to the area?
• Advice-giving is often used to meet the helper's needs, not the helpee. Discuss why advise giving is harmful for a helpee and what can happen from advise giving.
• Consider resistance, reluctance, and helper frustration. Discuss how might a helper actually intensify a client's resistance?
• What should be considered when creating goals with/for your client?
• Why might a premature termination happen?
• What are three steps of a successful termination?
• How might the therapy relationship be affected by the duty of the therapist to report child abuse? What are ways to ensure that clients will not be surprised by this requirement?
• Define secondary trauma. Discuss the issue of secondary trauma for helpers. How might a firefighter, therapist, or doctor be affected by the trauma of others?
• Describe and provide examples of appropriate and inappropriate self-disclosure. What is the goal/purpose of self-disclosure and how do you bring it back to the client after self-disclosure?