COUNSELING GOALS, FUNCTIONS, AND SCOPE

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is an intimate form of learning

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Counseling

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it demands a practitioner who is willing to accept that people are diverse and be an authentic person in the therapeutic relationship.

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Counseling

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is a process facilitated by trained professionals for persons seeking greater self understanding and improved decision-making and an help in gaining greater behavior-change skills for problem solving and/or developmental growth with an understanding on the person’s socio-cultural background

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Counseling

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Counseling is a wellness profession that

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helps in the social, career, and emotional development across the lifespan.

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Counseling is a wellness profession that

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Establishes and applies mental health principles, methods, procedures, and ethics for treating or preventing mental disorders which includes psychotherapy, diagnosis, evaluation, referrals administration of assessments, do and counseling plans for people with emotional, mental, addiction, and physical disorders.

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Counselling is a wellness profession that

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gives support and guidance for individuals towards achievement of mental health, wellness, education, and career goals by including consultation. program evaluation, program administration, training and supervision of interne, trainees, and pre-licensed professional counselors (American Counseling Association).

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What is mental health?

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A person is not easily overwhelmed by their own emotions like fear, anger, love,

guilt or worries. A person who can carefully take life’s disappointments and accept their own shortcomings.

Feels right about other people and have
satisfying and lasting personal

relationship A person who can give love and consider the interests of others, and respects differences.

A person who can meet the demands of life and can cope with problems that arisen
A person who accepts responsibilities and welcomes new ideas of experience

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Goals of Counseling

What is the need of counseling for?

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1. Facilitate changes in one’s behavior (transformation, self-actualization,

self-understanding

2. Improve social and personal relationships (interaction, communication, support 3. Increase social effectiveness in one’s ability to cope (maximizing

potential) 4. Learn decision-making processes (learning rational choice, setting free

5. Enhance human potential and enrich self-development (goal-oriented)

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Facilitate changes in one’s behavior

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transformation, self-actualization, self-understanding

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Improve social and personal relationships

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interaction, communication, support

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Increase social effectiveness in one’s ability to cope

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(maximizing potential)

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Learn decision-making processes

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(learning rational choice, setting free

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Enhance human potential and enrich self-development

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(goal-oriented)

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Functions of Counseling

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1. It enables one to work on highly personal problems. While good teaching can inspire us and challenge us, counseling with people individually allows us to reach personal and innermost problems for resolution.
2. It promotes health and well-being.
3. It is a two-way communication teaching for developmental life changes.
4. It focuses on the needs of the individual.
5. It brings about meaningful awareness and understanding of the self and environment, improving planning and decision making, and formulating new ways of behaving, feeling, and thinking for problem solving and growth

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Scope of Counseling

The most common question will be “Who needs Counseling?”.

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The person-in- need (PIN) is any person who seeks help, or a student that a counselor sees to need help but is having a hard time seeking help.

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People seek help because

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they have feelings, values, and dignity.

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Counselors must:

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Treat each person as having some control over their lives, situations, and environment.

Consider each person as having the capacity to choose.

Regard each person as resourceful, worthwhile, unique, dynamic, and a responsible person.