Counselling
What is Counselling?
Counseling is defined as “A set of techniques, skills & attitudes to help people manage their own problems using their own resources”
Counselling is
Goals of Counselling
Counseling is defined as “A set of techniques, skills & attitudes to help people manage their own problems using their own resources”
Counselling is
- Way of life
- Helping someone to understand & improve himself/herself
- Facilitating the client to look at his doubts, face them, work through them & discover his own personality & grow
- Not working for the individual but working with the individual
- Not thinking for the individual but thinking with the individual
- Not sharing for the individual but sharing with the individual
- Not solving for the individual but solving with the individual
- Counselling is not giving information though information may be given
- Counselling is not giving advice, making suggestions and recommendations
- Counselling is not influencing the counsellee’s values, Attitudes, Interests, decisions etc
Goals of Counselling
- Achievement of positive mental health
- Resolution of problems
- Improving personal effectiveness
- Improving judgemental skills
- Modification of behavior