Doesnotcorrect a mistake or misconduct, but aims to help clients adjust in life
Goals and scope of counseling
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Counseling
A profession and a discipline, an interactive and learning process
Counseling as a learning process
Individuals learn about themselves, their interpersonal relationships, and behaviors that advance their personal development
Counseling as a learning process
Improveknowledge about one's self, Identify strengths and weaknesses, Evaluate one's capabilities
Counseling as a learning process
Increaseadaptive behavior and decreasemaladaptive behavior
Counseling as an interactive process
Counsellor initiates, facilitates, and maintains the interactive process through communication of feelings of respect, tolerance, spontaneity, and warmth
Counseling as an interactive process
Counselor establishes a safespace, Counselee may sharedilemma and counselor will listen, Counselee also listens to the points of the counselor
Counseling
A relational and interactiveprocess, success depends on both counselor and client working together
Potential outcomes of counseling
Resolution, Learning, Social Inclusion
Counseling and psychotherapy
Both can help people with problems in living, but psychotherapists are moreequipped to deal with severe psychological disorders
The main goal or purpose of counseling is to be a learningprocess between a counselor and a client that aims to achieve a better understanding of oneself
Counseling is an interactive process that expects the counselor to establish a safe space in the conversation
At the end of a counseling session, the client may reach a resolution or a solution to the problem
At the end of a counseling session, the client may achieve social inclusion or better adaptation to the environment, thus making him or her a more productive member of the society
At the end of a counseling session, the client may learn new skills and knowledge on how to approach certain circumstances in his or her life