GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING

  Console with Your Gesture and Posture Nonverbal communication has been recognized as a vital component of human communication, and plays an important role in social interactions, including in the context of counseling. Nonverbal communication is comprised of a range of behaviors including physical proximity, use of movement, facial expression, eye contact, posture, physiological responses, kinesics, haptics, and proxemics (Andersen & Guerrero, 2018). These nonverbal behaviors convey information about an individual’s emotional state, intentions, and attitudes, and can significantly influence how others perceive and respond to them (Knapp & Hall, 2010). In the context of counseling, nonverbal communication can be a powerful tool for building rapport and trust between the therapist and the client. The therapist's nonverbal behaviors can convey credibility, intimacy, security, satisfaction, interest, and personal awareness to the client, which can facilitate a positive therap...

Learning Methods for a Counsellor and Applying Micro Skills An effective counselling requires experience, gathered with necessary information of which has been applied for the benefit of the client. For a trainee counsellor, the vital methods are reading counselling skills and following improvements, updates about professions, discussing issues with other counsellors and be cautious and brave enough to practice in his/her life. However, when they learn and realize it into their lives; they may come across troubles like lack of practice, unsatisfactory preparation, uncontrollable feelings such as shock, amazement, laughter etc. That everybody is a learner, everybody is a teacher and every script tells you something useful or inapplicable should be the slogan and philosophy of a trainee counsellors. The more they are open to learning, the more experience they will have. Because experience doesn’t convey the meaning of the days a person has lived but the inputs s/he has learnt from life....