GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING

  Demolish The Bricks Psychological blockages can significantly impede an individual's progress towards achieving their goals. These blockages can be caused by a lack of confidence, excessive worry about others' opinions, anxiety, fear of failure, procrastination, or having too many decisions to make. In order to help clients overcome these blockages, it is important to first make them aware of the specific challenges they are facing. According to Bandura's social cognitive theory, self-efficacy plays a critical role in an individual's ability to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals (Bandura, 1986). Therefore, it is essential to help clients develop a sense of self-efficacy by encouraging them to view their challenges as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than as insurmountable obstacles. One effective strategy for overcoming psychological blockages is to help clients set specific goals and develop a plan for achieving them (Latham & Locke, 2002). This in...

  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...

  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...

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....

  DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN PSYCHOLOGY Repression is a psychological defense mechanism that involves the unconscious blocking of thoughts or memories that are deemed unacceptable or painful. According to Freud, repression is a fundamental component of the human psyche and is essential for maintaining mental health. However, it can also have negative consequences, such as the development of psychological disorders. Displacement is another defense mechanism that involves redirecting emotions from one target to another, typically from a person who is valued to someone or something that is deemed less important. Displacement is often seen in children who redirect their frustration with their parents onto their peers or toys. Rationalization is a defense mechanism that involves justifying or explaining away undesirable behavior or feelings. For instance, a student who is hesitant to attend a party may rationalize their decision by telling their friends that they have an assignment to fin...