M3.3 Counseling Flashcards
What is counseling?
Counseling is a goal-oriented relationship between a professionally trained, competent counselor and an individual seeking help for the purpose of bringing about a 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 resolution and/or development growth.
What are generic goals of Counseling?
Generic Goals can be targeted for everyone, depending upon the stage at which an individual is encountered. They pertain to the general classification spelled out by Gibson and Mitchell (1999, p.145).
What are developmental goals of Counseling?
When clients are assisted in preparing for their anticipated human growth and development in the physical, personal, emotional, social, cognitive and spiritual dimensions.
What are preventive goals of Counseling?
When clients are encountered at the time they are not experiencing any problem but are helped to avoid experiencing undesired outcomes.
What are the enhancement goals of Counseling?
When clients’ encountered need is to be helped to identify, recognize and enhance unused or underused talents, skills and abilities.
What are the exploratory goals of Counseling?
When clients do not believe they have an existing problem but can benefit from examining options, testing skills, and trying new and different activities, environment, relationships, and so on.
What are the reinforcement goals of counseling?
When clients are already taking action for resolving their concerns or already have a planned course of action when they come for counseling, the goal would be to help them recognize that what they are doing, thinking, and/or feeling may be okay or may need some fine-tuning. They are given the feedback needed in light of what they wish to accomplish. Affirmation or modification can be the target for such clients.
What are remedial goals of counseling?
Goals whereby clients are assisted to overcome or solve an already existing concern are called remedial.
What goals are under the generic goals of counseling?
- Developmental Goals
- Preventive Goals
- Enhancement Goals
- Exploratory Goals
- Reinforcement Goals
- Remedial Goals
What goals are under human dimensional goals?
- Cognitive Goals
- Psychological Goals
- Physiological Goals
- Spiritual Goals
What are the human dimensional goals?
Gibson and Mitchell (1999) seem to refer to the various dimensions of a human being that must be addressed when they discuss the following goals. In the Philippines, the last two goals are usually responded to by a specialist rather than by a counselor who would really be considered an educational/academic or psychological counselor.
What are the cognitive goals?
It refers to the development of the intellect, and this is a concern mainly in schools. The focus would be the acquisition of the basic foundations of learning and cognitive skills.
What are the psychological goals?
It refers to the development of good intra- and interpersonal skills: social/interactional skills, emotional control, self-esteem and the like. Counselors in schools and other settings are often called upon to respond to these.
What are the physiological goals?
These are goals whereby clients are helped to develop the basic understanding and habits for good health, such as those done by fitness and diet counselors. Very few school or clinical counselors have the expertise for these and are likely to refer to doctors, dietitians and other health-care providers.
What are spiritual goals?
Helping individuals focus on internal processes within them which have to do with wholeness and inner peace constitutes the spiritual goals, whether this includes the relationship with God or not. In the Philippines, spiritual goals are still mainly looked upon by many as connected to the relationship with God, sinfulness, and other aspects of morality. Clients with such goals are often referred to priests, pastors, and other religious.
