GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING

  Modeling In Counseling There are several approaches to modeling for counseling trainers that help to cultivate their career as a counselor. These include video demonstrations, role modeling, and creating a criteria list that contains all the necessary requirements for excellent therapy with wise and sophisticated counselors whom they can find in counselor organizations, in which they should enroll. Trainees are expected to check the criteria list in detail after completing a triad session, and qualified trainee counselors need to evaluate the results and note their missing points with their friends and ask them to criticize how they led the session. They can also mark themselves as if in the positions of teacher and student. In addition to these, creating a setting to observe people's psychology and their reactions in each situation to detect their problems and deduce some ideas from their approaches to phenomena can be counted as another way of modeling. In this case, the traine...

IS TOO MUCH QUESTIONING HEALTHY? Two of the main drawbacks of being questioned too much on the student are to make them feel worry and to decrease their self-confidence. These feelings prevent counsellors from having beneficial information from students and conclude the session in failure. Moreover, students can adjust themselves to reply to questions just when they are asked to. Therefore, a quality counsellor should consider feelings and thoughts when arranging the quantity of questions. What differs questioning in the police station from in the counselling session room is to find out someone or something for accusing or blaming. Therefore; the policemen ask many and various questions to detect the reason for the case. The people who are questioned can be anxious or feel guilty and hide the truth about them. However, in the counselling session, the environment is set up to make the student feel confident and safe. Rather than finding anything or anyone who is suspicious, it aims for ...

Some counselors even teachers get trapped by their words while guiding their clients and students. The choice of words could make the session even worse. Please see the examples and definitions below to lead clients better.   a-) The statements below show the characteristic of appropriate feedback.  I feel this situation tensed your nerves and that sometimes makes it hard for people to control their behaviors. I understand you r feeling. Sometimes, when we are frustrated, it is a bit hard to speak calmly.  As a counsellor, it would be great to help in a peaceful atmosphere rather than a nervous environment. These statements would be more suitable when the client is nervous and uses inappropriate words about the situation but in front of the counsellor. These statements aim to explain the disturbance caused by the clients without breaking their heart and blaming them. Therefore, the statements refer to behaviors and the situation rather than clients themselves. In addition...