The Academy for Health Counseling, a Specified Nonprofit Organization

SAT Health Behavior Supporters

Competence Requirements

Be able to assist clients solve their own problems through healthy behavioral modification.

Guidelines for Screening Registered SAT Health Behavior Supporters of AHC

‚PDIrrespective of the quality of the basic stance of SAT counseling, acceptability criteria for SAT target behavior support counseling based on the method of articulating feelings and the self-imaging method are:

  1. Is the client being counseled according to the established procedure?
  2. After applying the method of articulating feelings, did the stress level decrease 20% or more from what it was prior to the intervention?
  3. Is the target behavior set at the actual confidence level of 80$ or higher?
  4. In the taped record, is the person playing the part of the client speaking in a "voice full of life" that exudes assurance and self-confidence?
  5. Apply the self-imaging method in such a way that, as a general rule, the stress level is decreased to 30% or lower?
    If the stress level does not decrease to 30% or lower, ask your client what has to be solved to achieve that target stress level, and have him/her indicate what comes to his/her mind in a flash, and then set that as the behavior to be targeted.
  6. Judge the success of counseling on the basis of whether the words of empathetic encouragement uttered by the person playing the part of the counselor exude enough empathy to "touch the judge's heart."

‚QDIrrespective of the quality of the basic stance of SAT counseling, acceptability criteria for SAT target behavior support counseling are:

  1. Is the client being counseled according to the established procedure?
  2. Do the questions in the traumatic scene association method help the client make associations more easily?
  3. Are the following points confirmed in applying the four scenes for converting traumatic images: (for tutelary avoidance) Is the subjunctive mood of temporal retroaction adopted, and is the person engaged in problem avoidance someone other than the client himself/herself? ; (for prevention avoidance ) Is the subjunctive mood of temporal retroaction adopted, and is the person engaged in problem avoidance the client himself/herself); (for healing) Starting with the realistic memory of the past, is the healing being administered by someone other than the client himself/herself); and (for relearning) Starting with the realistic memory of the past, is the person engaged in problem resolution the client himself/herself and does the resolution satisfy both the desire to trust the self and the desire for benevolent affections?
  4. Is the target behavior set at the small goal of actual confidence level of 80$ or higher?
  5. Are the things the client became aware of when the countercurrent explanation method was applied and the details of what he/she relearned the things that he/she is able to understand realistically and rationally for solving his/her current problems?
  6. In the taped record, is the person playing the part of the client speaking in a "voice full of life" that exudes assurance and self-confidence?
  7. Judge the success of counseling on the basis of whether the words of empathetic encouragement uttered by the person playing the part of the counselor exude enough empathy to "touch the judge's heart."
  8. Strive to make sure the stress level remains 30% or lower. If the stress level cannot be reduced to 30% or below, ask your client what has to be solved to achieve that target stress level, and have him/her indicate what comes to his/her mind in a flash, and then set that as the behavior to be targeted.

Whether the candidate has passed the screening for registered ACH behavior modification supporters is determined by whether the candidate has mastered the above points and is able to confirm them.
The candidate is not expected to have reached the level of proficiency that would enable he/she to automatically confirm the above check points.

[AHC Qualification Screening Board.@August 2007, Revised in January, 2009]