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Sunday, March 14, 2010

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.

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