Need Of Counseling

Today due to the hi-tech innovation, scientific revolution, changing nature of human behavior, the pattern of the society is changing rapidly. This is affecting person's adjustment with his family, community and society. Thus, counseling has become the basic need of an individual. Counseling is required for better adaptation of an individual. It concentrates on ones well being.

Counseling comprises of personal help given by professional experts. It is designed to assist a person in accomplishing his purpose. It does not answer the dilemma of an individual, but facilitate the individual to resolve the problem himself. Center of attention for guidance & counseling is the client, not the problem. Its objective is to promote the growth of an individual by self- direction.

This distinct profession has its interdisciplinary base, interlinked with other fields such as sociology, history, anthropology, psychometric, psychology, ethics, etc.

Guidance counselor, an expert who practices counseling, supports an individual by systematic professional process through education and interpretive procedure. This is meant to enable the individual to gain better understanding of his own characteristics and potentialities. Further, in accordance with social & moral values, this helps him to relate himself more satisfactorily to social requirement and opportunities.

Counseling: An Introduction

The term ‘counseling’ is very popular amongst people these days. But everyone is not well acquainted with this term. In today’s jet age, it is extremely important that every individual is made aware of counseling.

It is a professional assistance to an individual, a client, which is meant to provide self direction to him, so as to develop understanding of problem and the related solution. Counselor is the professional who provides this assistance. Counselor’s trainings and experiences make her qualified to help others to arrive at solutions for various types of personal problems or hurdles. She assists her client to become aware of his existing problems. She helps him to develop an insight of the nature and solution of the problem. A client uses counselor’s eyes to see his private world. Counseling is interpersonal relationship between client and counselor wherein genuineness and transparency are the primary characteristics.

Profession of counseling is concerned with an individual’s mental wellbeing, personal growth and situational difficulties. It also involves extending help to dysfunctional individuals, meant to make clients capable of realizing their problem and solution.

The process of counseling refers to the joint quest of client and counselor to identify the distress or problem faced by him and to find the way out. It is a process which takes place in one-to-one relationship between the client beset by a problem with which he can not cope alone and the counselor.

Basic elements of counseling are:
1. Client (also referred to as counselee) and Counselor
2. Assisting clients to solve their problems themselves
3. Self direction and self realization of the client
4. Development of insight of client
5. Understanding of relation of self and environment by clients
6. Reorganization of personality for better adjustment