The document discusses the characteristics, professional preparation, and roles of counselors. It defines counselors as people trained to provide guidance on personal or psychological problems. Counselors require a master's degree and experience in areas like teaching, counseling, and the behavioral sciences. Key characteristics include strong interpersonal and communication skills, emotional maturity, cultural sensitivity, and maintaining client confidentiality. The document also outlines the roles of counselors in providing services like assessments, referrals, career guidance, and coordinating with other professionals to help clients address personal issues.

1. CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNSELLOR
AND
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION AND TRAINING OF
COUNSELLING
Aruna Shastri
Msc. nursing 1st year

2. INTRODUCTION
 Counselling is the activity of the counselor, or a
professional who counsels people, especially on
personal problems and difficulties. Or
 Counselling is a process where clients are helped
in dealing with their personal and interpersonal
conflicts by a third party therapist. or
 “the process of assisting and guiding clients,
especially by a trained person on a professional
basis ,to resolve especially personal, social, or
psychological problems and difficulties

3. DEFINITION OF COUNSELLOR
•A person trained to give guidance on
personal or psychological problems.
• A faculty member who advises students
on personal and academic problems
,career choices, and the like.
•A counselor is a person whose job is to
give advice to people who need it,
especially advice on their personal
problems.

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNSELLOR
 Interpersonal relationships
 Personal adjustment
 Scholastic potentialities and educational
background
 Health and personal appearance
 Leadership
 Philosophy of life
 Professional dedication

5. CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNSELLOR
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS-
 Friendly nature
 Sympathetic, understanding.
 Sincerity
 Patience
 Tactfulness
 Ability to maintain confidentiality
 Respects clients attitudes and needs
 Attentive listener
 Speaks in clients language
 Capacity for being trusted by others

6. CHARACTERISTICS
PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT-
 Shows matured behavior, integrated personality
 Maintain emotional stability
 Flexibility and adaptability
 Aware about one’s limitations
 Shows self respect and self confidence

7. CHARACTERISTICS
SCHOLASTIC POTENTIALITIES AND EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDS
 Should be motivated and committed
 Aware of policies beliefs,misconceptions and rumors existing within the
community
 Capacity for work
 Positive interest
 Scholastic aptitude
 Respect the facts
 He will have masters degree in essential areas of guidance programmed
the area in training are:
 Counselor process
 Understanding the individual
 Educational, occupational and vocational information
 Administrative relationship
 Research and evaluation procedures
 Additional training in behavioral sciences(psychology and sociology

8. CHARACTERISTICS
HEALTH AND PERSONAL APPEARANCE-
 Pleasing voice
 pleasing appearance
 Freedom from annoying mannerism
 Poise and neatness

9. CHARACTERISTICS
LEADERSHIP
 Ability to stimulate and lead others
 Reinforces important information
 Directs the counselee ,the way to solve the
problems and guide him to choose appropriate one
with his own decisions

10. CHARACTERISTICS
PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
 Good character
 Positive philosophy of life
 Integrated personality
 Possesses an acceptable value system
 Faith in human values and human nature
Shows significant spiritual and religious values

11. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
Education
 Masters or bachelors degree in teaching and
education,they should have basic course in principles
and practice of the guidance.programmed and additional
area od training either in behavior sciences of
community health.
Experience
 2 years in teaching or counseling experience.
 1 year of cumulative work experience in the field of
school programmed.
 3-6 months of supervised counseling experience.
 Significant experience in social activities (eg.working
within the community,volunteer work,participating
community training programmed)

12. PERSONAL FITNESS
 Aptitude
 Interest
 Personality factors
all should be positive.

13. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES TO BE
CONSIDERED
 Appraise the counselee
 Maintain confidentiality
 Readiness
 Referral services
 Maintain legal rights of counselee
 Does not criticize unreasonably

14. SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES OF A COUNSELLOR
There are two types of counselor attributes:-
 Pre training attributes
 Inter training attributes

15. PRE TRAINING ATTRIBUTES
 SELF AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING
A person who has awareness of her needs, motivation
for helping, feelings, personal strength and weakness
acts as a good counselor.
 GOOD PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH
Although no person is totally problem free but a person
with less problems or good psychological health can be
trained to be counselor.
 SENSITIVITY
A person who is aware of resources, limitations and
vulnerability of other persons feelings and needs are
considered to have sensitivity.

16. CONTD-
 OPEN MINDEDNESS
A person who is free from fixed or preoccupied
ideas. they are aware of their own values and
believes and are able to distinguish them from the
belief and values of others.
 TRUST WORTHINESS
A person who is reliable,honest and does not hurt
other persons. He/she keep the information to
herself.
 APPROACHABILITY
The counselor who is friendly has positive attitudes
about others and can be approached without
feeling of apprehension

17. INTER TRAINING ATTRIBUTES
INTERVIEW SETTING AND GREETING STARTED
 Physical arrangement
The chairs should face each others with a learning
facility for both. The closeness of counselor helps in
indicating the attentiveness and willingness.

18. CONTD-
 Greetings
A warm and friendly greeting facilitate the helping
process.eg.shaking hands with the individual or
greeting with the smile.

19. CONTD-
 Inviting the individual participation
Counselor should not waste time on rituals like
“oh”,today climate is very good etc.but should start
the interview by asking the individuals why they
have come for counseling. simple statements such
as :so may I help you”? for "what should you like to
discussed.

20. CONTD-
 Demonstrating proper body posture
An attentive and relaxed counselor helps in building
intimate atmosphere. a mobile posture allows
freedom to movement and ability to use the body to
assist in communications

21. CONTD-
 Maintaining eye contact
Eye contact helps in building personal relationship and
permits the counselor to observe non verbal behavior.
 Demonstrating proper body posture
 An attentive and relaxed counselor helps in building
intimate atmosphere. a mobile posture allows freedom
to movement and ability to use the body to assist in
communications.
 Demonstrating proper body posture
 An attentive and relaxed counselor helps in building
intimate atmosphere. a mobile posture allows freedom
to movement and ability to use the body to assist in
communication

22. CONTD-
 MANAGING INTERACTION WITH THE
INDIVIDUAL
To facilitate the discussion ,more skills are needed,
the following techniques may be used to continue
the interaction.
 Restatement
 Interpretation
 Managing pause and silence

23. CONTD-
Other skills
 communication (verbal & written)
 Interpersonal
 Problem Solving & Creativity
 Knowledge of Subject Matter
 Organizational
 Objectivity
 Awareness of Diversity
 Confidentiality

24. TYPES OF COUNSELLOR
Genetic
counsellor
CAREER
COUNSELLOR
ADDICTION
COUNSELLOR
School
counsellor
Family
counsellor
Rehablitation
counsellor

25. GENETIC COUNSELLOR
 Analyze clues from family history of sickness
 Perform genetic testing
 provide medical information about genetic disorders
 identify risks and show options
 research and teaching

26. CAREER COUNSELLOR
 Obtain educational/ employment history to help
client set reasonable career goals;
 apply interest, aptitude, skills testing;
 educate on career management, job search
strategies
 interview resume skills and related resources with
information on various occupations

27. FAMILY AND MARRIAGE COUNSELLOR
 Assess family situation
 recommend and conduct therapy program to
develop effective and satisfactory relationships
 sometimes referral to other programs to treat
individual problem of one member that results in
family conflict (e.g. addictions, anger)

28. ADDICTION COUNSELLOR
 Identify addiction
 Support and encourage recovery
 Develop treatment plans (often use 12-step plan
focusing on self-image);
 prepare written reports on progress
 community about prevention programs

29. SCHOOL COUNSELLOR
 Interview students
 Apply assessment tests to identify interest and
abilities
 Schedule courses
 help students in course/program selection
 career planning
 coping with personal problems
 Hold workshops
 consult with teachers, parents, and others to co-
ordinate counseling

30. PROBLEMS IN COUNSELLING
RESISTANCE TO
COUNSELLING
COUNSELLING
INDIVIDUALS WITH
STRONG EMOTION
.COUNSELLING
INDIVIDUALS OF
DIFFERENT CULTURES-
COUNSELLOR BURN
OUT-

31. CONTD…
 Cost concern
 Bad experiences in past
 Social stigma
 A sense of denial
 Fear of counselling
 Counselee with different culture

32. RESISTANCE IN COUNSELLING
 .RESISTANCE TO COUNSELLING-
Resistance can be from both sides client and client.
Individual feels that I don’t need any counseling of
special help. and resistance from the faculty itself
i.e. administration do not see the worth of
counseling and discard it as not a necessary
process

33. CONTD-
 .COUNSELLING INDIVIDUALS OF DIFFERENT
CULTURES-
We may be working in such situation where we may have clients
from different cultures so clients will be having different sets of
values. there we cannot impose our value system on them.
 3.COUNSELLING INDIVIDUALS WITH STRONG
EMOTION—
Counselor may come come across individual with strong
emotion such as anxiety anger depression .these process
hinder the counseling. In those cases we 1st acknowledge
their feeling.
 4.COUNSELLOR BURN OUT-
Because of rush or Burdon excitement of counselor may
changed into discouragement. Symptoms will be restless,
irritability, lethargy, fatigue etc.this can be managed by
changing your work environment, changing work approach etc

34. ROLE OF COUNSELLOR
 Arrange orientation programmes for the other
support staff to enlist their cooperation
 Prepare an up to date list of resources, information
,referral, and energy available to him.
 Organize the guidance committee.
 Set up an educational occupational information
centre.
 Display the information collected in an attractive
way.
 Disseminate information through educational and
career talks. group discussion and so on.

35. CONTD-
 Arrange talks by experts from different fields.
 Organize career days, career weeks, parents day
etc.
 Administer psychological tests
 Provide counseling services.
 Help in student placement
 Maintain complete secrecy of the discussion
 Educate students regarding proper study habits
 Arrange visits to place of work like industries,
business offices etc

36. CONTD-
 Maintain an active relationships with schools,
colleges etc
 Maintain an active liaison with clubs
 Refer serious mental cases to clinical psychologist
or psychiatrist.

37. SUMMARY
 Introduction
 Definition of counsellor
 Characteristics of counsellor
 Professional preparation of counsellor
 Skills or attributes of counsellor
 Functions of counsellor
 Types of counsellor
 Problems in counselling
 Role of counsellor

38. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 basheer p.shebeer,textbook ok nursing
education,1st edition(2015) emmess medical
publisher ,p-415-57
 Bhaskar neema,textbook of nursing education,2nd
edition,emmess medical publisher,p-382-410

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