LESSON 3 - Counseling and its overall impact

1. The
Discipline
of
Counseling “Venus is the
second planet
from the Sun”

2. INTRODUCTION
The Discipline of Counseling is a
relationship characterized by the
application of one or more
psychological theories and a recognized
set of communication skills appropriate
to a client’s intimate concerns,
problems, or aspirations. (Feltham and
Dryden, 1993)

3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Goals and
Scope of
Counseling
03
Definition of
Counseling
01 Context and
Basic concepts
02
Principles of
Counseling
04

4. Definition
01
What is Counseling?

5. “The process of guiding
a person during a stage of
life when reassessments
or decisions have to be
made about himself or
herself in his or her life
course.”
The Collin’s Dictionry of
Sociology defines it as:

6. Counselors
Counselors are professionally trained
and certified to perform counseling.
Their job is to provide advice or
guidance in decision making in
emotionally significant situations by
helping clients explore and understand
their worlds and discover better ways in
resolving the problem itself.

7. SHORT ACTIVITY
“What advice can you
give to your 12 – year –
old self?”

8. There are two sides in counseling process:
The individual or
group
A mature,
professionally
trained counselor.

9. Variables
Intelligence, interest,
aptitude, interest,
personality traits
DEALS WITH
Design, administration,
and interpretation of
quantitative tests for
measurement of
psychological variables
PSYCHOMETRICS
BRANCH of
Psychology

10. psychometrics
The intent of psychometric testing is to
use a number carefully calibrated short
or multiple-choice questions to
accurately measure student aptitude.

11. Don’t be confused:
Counseling Psychiatry

12. 02 CONTEXT AND
BASIC CONCEPTS

13. The Context of Counseling (Urie
Bronfenbrenner0
PEERS CULTURE
NEIGHBOR
HOOD
COUNSELING CLIENT COUNSELOR
+ THE PROCESS FACTORS

14. PEERS as Context
Friends, attitudes, Norms, and
behaviors have a strong influence on
adolescents.

15. Neighborhood as Context
The interactions between family and its
neighborhood can introduce additional
strengths or challenges to parenting.

16. Culture as Context
Culture provides meaning an coherence
of life to any orderly life such as
community and organization. Various
sectors in community are bound
together by culture.

17. Culture as Context
Culture is the source of language,
norms, values, symbols, which provide
basis for normal functioning of an
individual.

18. Counseling as Context
There is a deliberate set of focus, a set
of procedure, rules, expectations, and
experiences and a way of monitoring
progress. Counseling can be therefore
influenced by counseling context.

19. Contextual factors
Counselor factors
COUNSELING FACTORS should also manage:
Client Factors

20. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
Advice-giving has to avoid breeding a
relationship in which the counselee
feels inferior and emotionally
dependent on the counselor.

21. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
Clarification is an attempt by the
counselor to restate what the client is
either saying or feeling, so the client
may learn something or understand the
issue better.

22. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
Clarified thinking encourages a client to
accept responsibility for problems and
to be more realistic in solving them.

23. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
Counseling provides clients the
opportunity to get emotional release from
their pent-up frustrations and other
personal issues.

24. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
Empathy requires the counselor to listen
and understand the feelings and
perspective of the client, while positive
regard is an aspect of respect.

25. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
Good listening skills help counselors to
understand the client’s concern without
making interpretations or offering any
premature suggestions on how to deal
with and solve them.

26. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
Reassurance is a valuable principle that
can bring about a sense of relief that
may empower a client to function
normally again.

27. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
Reorientation involves a change in the
client’s emotional self through a change
in basic goals and aspirations.

28. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
In all circumstances, clients must be
treated with respect, no matter how
peculiar or utterly different they are
from the counselor.

29. PRINCIPLES OF
COUNSELING
When clients are helped to understand
transference reactions, then they are
empowered to gain understanding of
important aspects of their emotional
life.

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