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• Counseling


  The professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals
• Counseling process


  1. Individual or group who is/are distressed asks for help

  2. Counselor enters a kind of connection with them

  3. Long-term process of assisting people to help themselves overcome their personal conflicts

  4. Counselors guide their clients to personally solve their own problems so that the clients will not be dependent on their counselors
• Counseling


  • Different from casual conversations
  • Builds professional relationships with clients
  • Counselors help in a professional and ethical way
• Depression


  A common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think, and how you act
• Stress


  State of mental or emotional tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances
• Anxiety


  • Your body's natural response to stress
  • A feeling of fear or apprehension about what's to come
• Self-esteem


  A person's overall sense of self-worth or personal value
• Goals of counseling

  • Changing the undesired behavior
  • Making the clients realize their full potential
  • Enhancing coping skills
  • Building interpersonal relationship
  • Promoting decision making skills
• Principles of counseling

  • Respect for Autonomy
  • Non-maleficence
  • Beneficence
  • Justice
  • Fidelity
• Respect for Autonomy


  The freedom of clients to choose their own direction - respecting that the client has the ability to make choices free from the constraints of others
• Non-maleficence


  Counselors have a responsibility to avoid utilizing interventions that could or have the potential to harm clients
• Beneficence


  The responsibility to do good and to contribute to the welfare of the client. The counselor is expected to do the best for the client and if unable to assist; to offer alternatives as appropriate
• Justice


  Counselors should be expected to act in a non-discriminatory manner toward individuals or groups
• Fidelity


  The trust relationship between the counselor and the client. Fidelity a client needs to be able to trust that the words and actions of the counselor are truthful and reliable
• competencies of counselors

  • patience
  • good listener
  • compassionate
  • non-judgemental
  • empathetic
  • discreet
  • encouraging
  • authenticity
  • self-aware
  • research-oriented
• areas of specialization

  hospital - psychological and behavioral issues.
• areas of specialization

  inpatient or outpatient detoxification centers - removal of toxic substances
• areas of specialization

  mental health facilities and agencies - emotional, psychological, and social well being.
• areas of specialization

  residential care facilities - services to ppl living in temporary environment.
• areas of specialization

  geriatric-related facilities - serves the elderly population
• areas of specialization

  halfway houses - help transitioning back to societal environment.
• areas of specialization

  va medical hospitals - addressing issues such as ptsd.
• areas of specialization

  correctional facilities and/or prisons - therapy for individuals who are jailed.
• areas of specialization

  educational institutions - helping students to navigate stress.
• areas of specialization

  career centers - employment opportunities
• setting in counseling

  • government
  • private sector
  • civil society
  • schools
  • community
• types of clientele in counseling

  • individual
  • groups
  • community
• social work


   practice-based profession and an academic discipline.
• goals of social work

  • To provide exceptional public service
  • To ensure that social justice and human rights are being honored.
  • To develop a sense of personal and societal safety and security.
  • To have a holistic development
  • To examine, assess, and interpret data gathered
• roles of social workers

  advocate - fight for the rights of others.
• roles of social workers

  broker - identify and locate resources
• roles of social workers

  counselor - provide guidance and counseling
• roles of social workers

  mediator - they place themselves in the center to accomplish the goals.
• competencies

  patience - should understand the differences of individuals.
• competencies

  good listener - client must be given time to express their dilemmas.
• competencies

  compassionate - the counselor is justly concerned with them.
• competencies

  non-judgemental - refrain from giving judgments.
• competencies

  empathetic - put themselves in the shoes of an individual.
• competencies

  discreet - protect and maintain the confidentiality.
• competencies


  encouraging - they need to instill hope in every desperate person.