HUMSS 303: Counselling as a Profession

• Individual assessment


  seeks to identify the characteristics and potential of every client; promotes the client’s self understanding and assisting counselors to understand the client better
• Individual counseling


  Considered as the core activity through which other activities become meaningful. it is a client-centered process that demand confidentiality. Relationship is established between counselor and client.
• Group counseling and guidance


  Groups are means of providing organized and planned assistance to individuals for an array of needs. Counselor provides assistance through group counseling and group guidance.
• Career assistance


  Counselors are called on to provide career planning and adjustment assistance to clients
• Placement and follow-up


  A service if school counseling programs with emphasis on educational placements in course and programs
• Referral


  It is the practice of helping clients find needed expert assistance that the referring counselor cannot provide
• Consultation


  It is a process of helping a client through a third party or helping system improve its services to its clientele
• Research


  It is necessary to advance the profession of counseling; it can provide empirically based data relevant to the ultimate goal of implementing effective counseling
• Evaluation


  is a means of assessing the effectiveness of counselor’s activitie
• Accountability


  is an outgrowth of demand that schools and other tax-supported institutions be held accountable for their actions
• Prevention


  This includes promotion of mental health through primary prevention using a social-psychological perspective.
• Interpersonal Skills


  counselors who are competent display ability to listen, communicate; empathize; be present; aware of nonverbal communication; sensitive to voice quality, responsive to expressions of emotion, turn taking, structure of time and use of language.
• Personal Beliefs and Attitudes


  counselors have the capacity to accept others, belief in potential for change, awareness of ethical and moral choices and sensitive to values held by client and self.
• Conceptual Ability


  counselors have the ability to understand and assess the client's problems; to anticipate future problems; to make sense of immediate process in terms of wider conceptual scheme; to remember information about the client.
• Personal Soundness


  counselors must have no irrational belies that are destructive to counseling relationships, self-confidence, capacity to tolerate strong or uncomfortable feelings in relation 10 clients, secure personal boundaries, ability to be a client; must carry no social prejudice, ethnocentrism, and authoritarianism
• Mastery of Techniques


  counselors must have a knowledge of when and how to carry out spedfile interventions, ability to assess effectiveness of interventions, understanding of rationale behind techniques, possession of sufficiently wide repertoire of interventions
• Ability to understand and work within social systems


  this would comprise of awareness of family and work relationships of the client, the impact of agency on the clients, the capacity to use support networks and supervision; sensitivity to client from a different gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or age group.
• Openness to learning and inquiry


  counselors must have the capacity to be curious about clients' backgrounds and problems; being open to new knowledge