Counseling

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Counselling
is one of the fields of applied social
sciences as an application of the social
sciences, counselling provides
guidance, help, and support to
individuals who are distraught by a
diverse set of problems in their lives.
Counselling
is a discipline that is involved in the
provision of advice or guidance in
decision-making especially in
emotionally significant situations. It is a
avenue where trustworthy experts help
clients explore and understand their
worlds and so discover better ways of
thinking and living.
SOCIAL WORK
Practitioners help
individuals, families, and
groups, communities to
improve their individual and
collective well-being.
Communication
Applied social science provide
adequate training for careers in the
field of journalism and mass
communication because of
multidisciplinary knowledge and
skills that graduates learn from
social sciences.
Group counselling and guidance
Roles and functions of Counselling.

Groups are means of providing
organized and planned assistance
to individuals for an array of needs.
Counsellor provides assistance
through group counselling and
group guidance.
Development Goals
assist in meeting or
advancing the clients human
growth and development
including social, personal,
emotional, cognitive, and
physical wellness.
Preventive Goals
helps the client avoid
some undesired
outcome. E.g. failing
grades,
Enhancement Goals
enhance special
skills and abilities.
Remedial Goals
assisting a client to
overcome and treat an
undesirable development
Exploratory Goals
Examining options,
testing of skills, trying
new and different
activities, etc.
Reinforcement Goals
helps client in recognizing,

that what they are doing,
thinking, and feeling is
fine
Cognitive Goals
involves acquiring the

basic foundation of
learning and cognitive
skills
Psychological Goals
involves acquiring the

basic understanding
and habits for good
health
Self-Acceptance
The development of a positive

attitude toward self, marked by an
ability to acknowledge areas of
experience that had been the
subject of self- criticism and
rejection
Self-awareness
Becoming more aware of

thoughts and feelings that had
been blocked off or denied, or
developing a more accurate
sense of how self is perceived by
others.
Relating with others
Becoming better able to
form and maintain
meaningful and satisfying
relationships with other
people: for example , within
the family or workplace
Insight
Understanding of the origins and
development of emotional
difficulties, leading to an
increased capacity to take
rational control over feelings and
actions
Enlightenment
Assisting the client to
arrive at a higher
state of spiritual
awakening
Problem Solving
Finding a solution to a specific
problem that the client had not
been able to resolve alone.
Acquiring a general competence
in problem – solving
Psychological Education
Enabling the client to
acquire ideas and
techniques with which to
understand and control
behaviour
Acquisition of Social
Learning and mastering
social and interpersonal skills
such as maintenance of eye
contact , turn taking in
conversations, assertive, or
anger control
Empowerment
Working on skills ,
awareness, and knowledge
that will enable to client to
take control of his or her
own life
Systematic Change
Introducing change into

the way in that social
systems operate
Behaviour Change
The modification or replacement

of maladaptive or self-
destructive patterns of
behaviour.
Cognitive Change
The modification or
replacement of irrational
beliefs or mal adaptive
thought patterns associated
with self- destructive
behaviour
Principles of Permissiveness
Developing optimism
through professional
relationship allows
freedom of choice and
behaviour.
Principles of Acceptance
The counsellors show positive
regards and accepts the client
irrespective of who she/he is.
The client should be given due
regards to his. /her rights.
Principles of Learning
The presence of the
learning elements in the
entire process are
accepted and recognized.
Principle of Respect for the Individual
This is an attitude, which portrays
the belief that every person is a
worthy being that is competent to
decide what he or she really wants,
has the potential for growth, and
has the abilities to achieve what he
or she really wants from life.
Career assistance
Counsellors are called
on to provide career
planning and
adjustment assistance
to clients.
Individual assessment
Seeks to identify the
characteristics and potential of
every client; promotes the
client’s self-understanding and
assisting counsellors to
understand the client better
Placement and follow-up
A service of school
counselling programs with
emphasis one educational
placements in course and
programs
Individual counselling
Considers as the core activity
through which other activities
become meaningful. It is a client–
cantered process that demand
confidentiality. Relationship is
established between counsellor and
client.
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