Roles And Functions of Counselors

• 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 Assessment
• Considers as the core activity through which other activities become meaningful. It is a client –centered process that demands confidentiality.

  Individual Counseling
• Groups are means of providing organized and planned assistance to individuals for an array of needs.

  Group Counseling and Guidance
• Counselors are called on to provide career planning and adjustment assistance to clients.

  Career Assistance
• A service of school counseling programs with emphasis on educational placements in courses and programs.

  Placements and Follow-Up
• It is the practice of helping the clients find needed expert assistance that the referring counselor cannot provide.

  Referral
• It is the process of helping a client through a third party or helping system improve its service to its clientele.

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

  Research
• Evaluation is a means of assessing the effectiveness of a counselor's activities. Accountability is an outgrowth of demand that schools and other tax-supported institutions be held accountable for their actions.
• This includes promotion of mental health through primary prevention using a social-psychological perspective.

  Prevention