STEPS IN COUNSELLING

1. GOOD MORNING ……

2. COUNSELING
DEFINITION
Counseling is a purposeful reciprocal relationship
between two people in which one trained person
helps the other to change himself or his environment.
-Brammer 1952

3. COUNSELING STEPS
STEP I: ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS
STEP II: ASSESSMENT
STEP III: SETTING GOAL
STEP IV: INTERVENTIONS
STEP V: TERMINATION AND FOLLOW UP

4. STEP I: ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS
– Introduce yourself
– Listen attentively
– Ensure physical comfort
– Do not interrupt the individual while they are talking
– Observe nonverbal communications

5. STEP II: ASSESSMENT
It involves several skills such as,
• Observations
• Enquiry
• Making associations among facts
• Making educated guesses
• Recording

6. STEP III: SETTING GOAL
The major purpose of the setting goal to provide the
direction to individual and counselor. The process of
setting goals is cooperatively done by the counselor and
the individual. It requires:
• The skills of drawing inference
• Differentiation
• Teaching individual realistically

7. STEP IV: INTERVENTIONS
•It is a step in which is more influenced by the
viewpoints a counselor holds about counseling
process. After setting the question that follows is
how shall we accomplish these goals? The
intervention will be used depend upon
approaches used by counselor, the problem and
the individual.

8. STEP V: TERMINATION AND FOLLOW UP
• All counseling has ultimate criterion a successful
termination.
• It must be done without destroying the
accomplishments gained and should be done with
sensitivity.
• It is not unusual for the individual to have a feeling of
sense loss; hence termination should be planned over
few sessions.