Basic Principles in Counseling Discouraging facts about Counseling

Basic Communication Skills

VI. Basic Principles in Counseling

Principles
- Guidance is based on true concept of the client.
- Guidance is designed to provide assistance to a person in crisis in solving it through self-
discovery and self-direction
- Guidance is a learning process
- Guidance is helping the client understand himself
- Guidance leads one to make intelligent choices.

A. The Counseling setting

- Privacy
- Conducive
- The Counselor’s attitude

Counseling essentials
- RAPPORT
- RELATIONSHIP
- RESPECT

B. Counseling Phases

1. The EXPLORATORY PHASE

2. The INTRODUCTORY PHASE
3. The INTERPRETATIVE PHASE
4. The WORKING PHASE
5. The TERMINATING PHASE

C. Different Counseling Positions

1. Sitting position
2. Open
3. LEAN
4. EYE-to-EYE CONTACT
5. RELAX

D. Counseling ethics during session

1. KEEP CONFIDENTIAL matter to ONESELF

2. DON’T be TIME CONSCIOUS
3. DON’T INFLUENCE the counselee to your way of thinking.
4. KNOW your LIMITATION
5. Avoid PHYSICAL Contact
6. Learn not only to be Sympathetic but also EMPATHIC

E. Counseling Aspects
1. Lead the counselee to be open
2. Stimulate him to TALK
3. Listen ATTENTIVELY
4. Watch carefully for counselee’s HAND GESTURES and FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
5. ALLOW SILENCE to come once in a while
6. Ask questions WISELY
VII. Discouraging Facts about Counseling
1. It is TIME CONSUMING
2. It is EMOTIONALLY TIRING
3. It is PHYSICALLY EXHAUSTING
4. It is frequently UNSUCCESSFUL because we CANNOT impose in them what can be perceived as
the BEST and SWIFT SOLUTION

5. It looks UNREWARDING