2. The counselee
• Gender of the counselee
• Values of the counselee
• Mental health of the counselee
3. Counseling
Counseling is the application of mental
health, psychological or human development
principles, through cognitive, affective,
behavioral or systemic interventions, strategies
that address wellness, personal growth, or
career development, as well as pathology.
(ACA)
5. Women in counselling
• Women constitute the vast majority of clients
seeking help from counselling and
psychoherapy.
• Womens’ relational patterns and needs to be
addressed by therapists.
• Researches shows that higher levels of
anticipated comfort self-disclosing to a female
therapist.
6. • Female clients preferred counsellors who were
supportive when dealing with emotional issues but on
relationship issues women tended to like more directive
approach ,in which the counsellor advised them on what
to do.
• Female consider a rather collaborative and guiding type
of theraputic relationship as effective in comparison to a
more challenging and confrontational one.
7. Men in counselling
• Men considered more powerful,
privileged
• Lower Mental Health services
utilization than women.
• Mandated
• Resistent
• Closed off and sceptical
• Want quick fix answers
8. • Attempt to take charge of the session
• The need for help is potentially humiliating for men
• Masculinity is core to a mans’ identity.
• male stigmatization in counselling.
• Men adapt to treatment or treatment adapt to
men?
9. values
• Values are the fundamental
consideration in
counselling the value of the
counselee are the basic
content of the counselling.
10. Respect for Autonomy.
• Autonomy is the “personal rule of the self
that is free from both controlling
interferences by others and from personal
limitations that prevent meaningful choice.”
11. • The counselee has to come to the
counsellor to assistance and deserves to
be treated as a person of worth and value.
12. • there is good in each , and the individual
needs to feel appreciated and valued.
• counsellor there for have a responsibility
to assist counselee's to feel good about
themselves and to increase the
counselees’ sense of worth.
• It is not respectful to impose personal
values upon clients.
13.
14. • Positive mental health is the goal of counselling
• Achieve integration,adjustment,and positive
identification with others.
• Learns to accept responsibility
• To be independent and gain behavioural
integration
