Scope of Counselling
Counselling can be educational, personal/social, and/or vocational. Educational counselling assists students in making right decisions about their educational choices such as the courses they want to take up, and decide on what interests and skills they want to develop. Some schools refer this as academic counselling. Academic counselling assists students in improving their performance academically and counsellors try to look into the different factors for the decline or increase of students’ grades. Career choices, on the other hand, are catered in vocational counselling or guidance and career counselling.
Another form of counselling is the personal/social. It deals with emotional distress and behavioural difficulties
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Counselling is for everyone. This service is not only for those people with special handicaps but also for normal ones. It knows no age, a child, a teen or an adult may receive this if they want to.
2. Counselling is concerned with the need and development of a person. It is a way to identify the needs of individuals and help them know the ways to meet such needs.
3. Counselling ensures human dignity and worth. It encourages client for life satisfaction, potential realization, and self awareness. In counselling, every client must feel that he/she is significant.
4. Counselling is methodical, sequential, continuous, and development. A person does not only receive counselling in one time or in one day hence the counsellor must monitor his/her client’s condition. In school counselling, for example, the service is not only given in primary but until tertiary education or even after that.
5. Counselling is a relationship between a counsellor and the client, therefore
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enhancing human development throughout the life span;
2. honoring diversity and embracing a multicultural approach in support of the worth, dignity, potential, and uniqueness of people within their social and cultural contexts;
3. promoting social justice;
4. safeguarding the integrity of the counselor–client relationship; and
5. practicing in a competent and ethical manner.
In counselling, every counsellor is guided with the core conditions such as empathy and acceptance, and genuineness. Read the different point of views of counsellors and counselee pertaining to the value of counselling:
“Counselling taught me to be more open-minded and understand myself”. – Bea, 24.
“When I started it, I began to understand that every individual has a unique story, attitude, and culture. What they need is to be deeply understood.” – Jecliedy, 26
“I became more aware of what I want, I now know who am I. This is what we call self-awareness.” –Shela, 27.
“I tend to listen more, than talk.” –Steph, 30.
“Counselling is respecting individual differences.” -Delia, 41.
“Counselling is not just helping, it is giving love” –Andrew,