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This document defines counseling as a helping relationship where the counselor assists the counselee with emotions, feelings, and decision-making. The goals of counseling are to facilitate behavior change, improve relationships, enhance coping abilities, promote decision-making, and promote development. The principles of counseling outlined are acceptance, communication, empathy, non-judgement, confidentiality, individuality, and non-emotional involvement. Core values of counseling include respect, partnership, autonomy, responsible caring, personal integrity, and social justice.

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Intro COUNSELINGgoalsprinciplescore Values

This document defines counseling as a helping relationship where the counselor assists the counselee with emotions, feelings, and decision-making. The goals of counseling are to facilitate behavior change, improve relationships, enhance coping abilities, promote decision-making, and promote development. The principles of counseling outlined are acceptance, communication, empathy, non-judgement, confidentiality, individuality, and non-emotional involvement. Core values of counseling include respect, partnership, autonomy, responsible caring, personal integrity, and social justice.

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COUNSELING

P R E PA R E D B Y:
R O S E A N N T. A B E L A R D E
TEACHER II
VNHS - SHS
DEFINITION:

Counselling profession is a helping relationship.


A process in which the counselor assists the
counselee to cope with his/her emotions and feelings
and to help him/her makes positive choices and
decisions.
It is a learning-oriented process, which occurs
usually in an interactive relationship, with the aim of
helping a person learn more about the self, and to
use such understanding to enable the person to
become an effective member of society.
Counselling is a process by means of which the
helper expresses care and concern towards the
person with a problem, and facilitates that person's
personal growth and brings about change through
self-knowledge.
GOALS OF COUNSELING:

Here are the five commonly named goals of


counseling:
1.Facilitating behavior change
2.Improving the client’s ability to establish
and maintain relationships.
3.Enhancing the client’s effectiveness and
ability to cope.
4.Promoting the decision-making process
and facilitating client potential.
5. Development.
PRINCIPLES OF COUNSELING:
Counseling is a long-term process and consists of
professional communication.
These are the principles of counseling:
1. Principle of acceptance Accept the patient with his
physical, psychological, social, economic and cultural
conditions.
2. Principal of communication Communication should be
verbal as well as non-verbal and should be skillful.
3. Principle of empathy Instead of showing sympathy put
yourself in patient’s shoes and then give reflections
accordingly.
4. Principle of non-judge Mental attitude. Do not
criticize or comment negatively regarding patient’s
complaints.

5. Principle of confidentiality Always keep the


patient’s name and the problem strictly secrete and
assure the patient about the same.

6. Principle of individuality Treat each and every


patient as unique and respect his problem as well.

7. Principle of non-emotional involvement Do not get


emotionally involved with the patient and avoid
getting carried away with his feelings.
Counseling profession will also challenge the counselor to value
the counselee. Here are the core values of counseling:

1. Respect for human dignity refers to the unconditional


positive regard, compassion, non-judgmental attitude,
empathy and trust.
2. Partnership refers to the support on integrated healing,
integrity, sensitivity and openness.
3. Autonomy refers to the respect for confidentiality, trust,
ensuring a safe environment and no imposition of
advices.
4. Responsible caring refers to respecting the potentials of
every human being to change and to continue learning.
5. Personal integrity refers to the reflection of honesty and
truthfulness.
6. Social justice refers to being accepting and respectful of
the diversity of clients.

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