Nature and scope of counselling

1. GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
UNIT-III
NATURE AND SCOPE OF COUNSELLING
Dr.N.SASIKUMAR
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Alagappa University
Karaikudi-630003

2. Concept of Counseling
4 Counseling is a form of 'talk therapy'. It is a process where an
individual, couple or family meet with a trained professional
counsellor to talk about issues and problems that they are facing in
their lives. Professional counselling is confidential and non-
judgmental.
4 Counseling is a collaborative effort between the counselor and
client. Professional counselors help clients identify goals and potential
solutions to problems which cause emotional turmoil; seek to improve
communication and coping skills; strengthen self-esteem; and promote
behavior change and optimal mental health.
4 Perhaps the three main approaches are psychodynamic, humanistic
and behavioural. Each of these has a different theory and ideas
underpinning it, and the therapists and counsellors using each will
approach problems and issues in different ways. These three main
approaches each support a number of individual therapies.

6. Functions of Counselling
4 Counseling is a collaborative effort between the counselor and client.
Professional counselors help clients identify goals and potential
solutions to problems which cause emotional turmoil; seek to improve
communication and coping skills; strengthen self-esteem; and promote
behavior change and optimal mental health
The main functions of a counsellor are as follows:
4 Help a person face their troubles.
4 Identify the areas in which the patient/client requires help.
4 Evaluate the cause of the patient's problems.
4 Prescribe ways to constructively cope with the patient's difficulties.
4 Prevent the patient from taking any self-harming steps.
4 .

7. Types of Counselling
4 Directive Counselling,
4 Non-Directive Counselling, and
4 Eclectic Counselling.

8. 4 Directive Counselling: In this counselling the
counsellor plays an active role as it is regarded as a
means of helping people how to learn to solve their
own problems. This type of counselling is otherwise
known as counsellor-centred counselling.
4 Non-directive or client-centered psychotherapy.
This therapy does not try to solve the patient's
problems for him, but rather establishes the
conditions under which a patient can work out his
own salvation.
4 Eclectic Counselling: any counseling theory or
practice that incorporates and combines doctrines,
findings, and techniques selected from diverse
theoretical systems

9. 4 The reactive approach manages the issues once they
emerge or being encountered, without appropriate
arrangements on how to, what to, when to, and
whom to report. Possessing a reactive approach is not
an adequate plan, preferably not a strategy.
4 Proactive counseling is the idea that talking about
your day-to-day stresses with a professional will
likely improve your quality of life.
4 To be proactive is to anticipate, prepare, and intervene
based on a long-term vision and perspective. When
anticipating the future, you react accordingly before it
actually happens. To be reactive is to respond to a
situation, rather than creating or controlling it.