This document discusses counseling techniques and the role of counselors. It outlines techniques like building rapport, identifying problems, and finding solutions. It also lists qualities of effective counselors such as being friendly, patient, and maintaining confidentiality. The advantages of counseling include helping individuals solve problems and allowing for two-way communication. Limitations are that counseling takes a long time and is difficult to apply widely.
This document discusses counseling techniques and the role of counselors. It outlines techniques like building rapport, identifying problems, and finding solutions. It also lists qualities of effective counselors such as being friendly, patient, and maintaining confidentiality. The advantages of counseling include helping individuals solve problems and allowing for two-way communication. Limitations are that counseling takes a long time and is difficult to apply widely.
This document discusses counseling techniques and the role of counselors. It outlines techniques like building rapport, identifying problems, and finding solutions. It also lists qualities of effective counselors such as being friendly, patient, and maintaining confidentiality. The advantages of counseling include helping individuals solve problems and allowing for two-way communication. Limitations are that counseling takes a long time and is difficult to apply widely.
Counseling is the process of two-way communication
by which the counselor assists the individual/client to make decision about his/her own choice . Techniques of counseling (i) Building rapport: • Establishment of such relations will help to gain confidence, trust and mutual understanding that help to keep client at ease and help to exchange ideas, feelings, experiences at maximum level.
(ii) Identifying needs or problems of an individual:
• Counselor must speak politely, clearly, listen to, exchange ideas and help in identifying the problems of the clients.
(iii) Finding ways to solve the problems:
• The counselor should help the client in finding ways and means to solve his/her problems by encouraging in discussion and develop problem-solving strategies based on situation. Techniques of counseling contd.. (iv) Maintaining patience: A counselor should have patience while giving information, listening to the clients' ideas and guiding to help him, identifying the problems and help to solve it by necessary actions. (v) Keeping secret: Counselor should maintain confidence in keeping sensible personal matter secret during counseling. Qualities of a counselor A counselor must be; Friendly, sincere, cooperative and social. Capacity of judging things closely and in detail. Patience to listen and to deal problem with respect to his client Calm behaviour and unrushed manner. Possess skills of communication and monitoring the progress of counseling. Assure confidentiality concerning the client's information. Ability to minimize the pain, address the anxiety and ability to convince individual for taking necessary action to solve their problems. Advantage of counseling • It is helpful in dealing with individual and motivate to take necessary action to solve problems. • Provides maximum opportunity for feedback. • Helps to maintain two - way communication. • Illiterate people can by taught be this method. • Easy to make follow-up studies on the basis of counseling records. Limitations of counseling i. Counseling takes long period of time. ii. It is difficult to cover wide range of people through counseling method.