Psychological Counseling Vocabulary

verb to consider or take into account when making decisions or judgments

• In order to ensure fairness, we must make allowance for any unforeseen circumstances.
• Let's make allowance for traffic and leave a bit earlier.
• We need to make allowance for the fact that he's always running late.
• When planning the budget, it's important to make allowance for unexpected expenses.

noun a meeting or discussion to brainstorm ideas or solve problems, especially in an informal setting

• The team held a skull session to discuss their strategy for the upcoming game.
• We need to have a skull session to figure out how to solve this problem.
• Let's have a quick skull session to brainstorm some ideas.
• The professor's lecture felt like a never-ending skull session.

verb a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, in this case, the act of speaking or communicating verbally

• The professor was talking about the importance of research in the field of science.
• We were just talking about our plans for the weekend.
• She's always talking smack about other people behind their backs.
• The painting seems to be talking to me, telling a story of its own.

noun a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea

adjective a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun

preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence

conjunction a word that connects words, phrases, or clauses

• The statement made by the witness was a non-question and did not require a response.
• That was a non-question, don't bother answering it.
• The teacher asked a non-question during the quiz, it was so confusing.
• Her comment about the weather was a non-question, as it had nothing to do with the topic at hand.