What are the steps of Counciling (Psychology)?

Question

first to council someone u must hear to his problems, then analyse...then??
i guess there are few steps of counciling...if anyone knows please let me know too

Answer 1

Counselling is a lot more than what you learn in the textbooks. To be a good counsellor, you mainly have to listen. A good counsellor will have certain techniques to get a person answering their own questions. I dont think its about the counsellor analysing a persons problems, because sometimes the real problem doesnt become apparent until 3 to 5 sessions into counselling. And if a counsellor analysis too soon then he/she could be totally wrong. Some people do not know what their "real" problem is and a good counsellor will not tell you what the problem is. A good counsellor empowers a person to work out what their problem is. I think the most important thing in any counselling situation is that until trust is gained between a client and a counsellor, not a lot of theories you learn at University will work. Trust and rapport between client and counsellor is very important. Some counsellors are so caught up with theories that they confuse the client. You talk about steps....those steps will go backwards and forwards all the time. Our role as a counsellor is really only to guide our clients to working out solutions to their problems. I think a lot of people who go to counsellors have lost their power, they dont feel they have the "guts" to do anything about their life. A good counsellor will give their client back their "power" to see that they are just as good as anyone else and quite capable of making correct choices. The most important thing any counsellor needs to learn is that every client is different and sometimes none of the techniques we learnt at University will help because the client has a totally different belief system that wasnt covered in your studies at University. To be a good counsellor you really have to learn as much about your client as you possibly can and respect their point of view. Counselling is not an exact science....a theory is not a fact and these theories come about by doing studies of "human nature" To be an accurate science the whole world, every single person, from every single race needs to be studied for counselling to be an exact science. Studies are only taken from a particular cross section of society and even then the conclusion is only reliant on the majority of the same kind of responses.

Counsellors role is to guide, not advise, respect, not judge. But I think the most important thing any counsellor could ever learn is that we are only human and there are just some things that University doesnt prepare us for and you just have to "wing" it. Common-sense is the greatest tool a counsellor could have.

Answer 2

To counsel someone you need to listen, ask questions and help the individual move towards either a change in how they think, how they feel or what they believe. To help them the questions are usually geared towards what do they want to happen or how can they think about something in a different way or what can they do differently. Most of the literature on counseling psychology talks about how a specific theory works to have those things happen.