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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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

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