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    Goals and Scope of Counselling

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    Counseling seeks to help clients enhance their coping skills, improve relationships, and facilitate reaching their potential. Counselors work with clients to overcome issues like substance abuse, develop effective coping mechanisms, and gain control over their environment. The goal is to enable clients to make decisions and experience behavioral changes that allow them to be productive members of society. Counseling addresses individual issues as well as relationships within families and marriages. Areas of focus include identity, stress, abuse recovery, parenting, communication, and life transitions.

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    Goals and Scope of Counselling

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    Counseling seeks to help clients enhance their coping skills, improve relationships, and facilitate reaching their potential. Counselors work with clients to overcome issues like substance abuse, develop effective coping mechanisms, and gain control over their environment. The goal is to enable clients to make decisions and experience behavioral changes that allow them to be productive members of society. Counseling addresses individual issues as well as relationships within families and marriages. Areas of focus include identity, stress, abuse recovery, parenting, communication, and life transitions.

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    Counseling seeks to help clients enhance their coping skills, improve relationships, and facilitate reaching their potential. Counselors work with clients to overcome issues like substance abuse, develop effective coping mechanisms, and gain control over their environment. The goal is to enable clients to make decisions and experience behavioral changes that allow them to be productive members of society. Counseling addresses individual issues as well as relationships within families and marriages. Areas of focus include identity, stress, abuse recovery, parenting, communication, and life transitions.

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    Goals and Scope of Counselling

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    Counseling seeks to help clients enhance their coping skills, improve relationships, and facilitate reaching their potential. Counselors work with clients to overcome issues like substance abuse, develop effective coping mechanisms, and gain control over their environment. The goal is to enable clients to make decisions and experience behavioral changes that allow them to be productive members of society. Counseling addresses individual issues as well as relationships within families and marriages. Areas of focus include identity, stress, abuse recovery, parenting, communication, and life transitions.

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    The key takeaways are that counseling aims to enhance coping skills, improve relationships, facilitate client potential and behavior change, and promote decision making.

    Some of the goals of counseling discussed are enhancing coping skills, improving relationships, facilitating client potential, and facilitating behavior change.

    Some issues that individual counseling can address are adolescent identity, anxiety, anger management, depression, family dynamics, gender identity and sexuality, relationships, sexual abuse recovery, seniors issues, spirituality, stress, and workplace relationships.

    GOALS AND SCOPE Disciplines and Ideas in

    OF
    the Applied Social
    Sciences
    GOALS OF
    INTRODUCTION
    Different individuals have different perceptions of
    what can be expected of counseling. Individuals
    preparing to become counselors, and those who seek
    counseling, as well as parents, teachers, school
    administrators and governmental agencies, all differ in
    their expectations of the counseling experience.
    ENHANCING COPING SKILLS
    We will inevitably run into difficulties in the process of
    growing up. Most of us do not completely achieve all
    of our developmental tasks within a lifetime. All of the
    unique expectations and requirements imposed on us
    by others will eventually lead to problems. Any
    inconsistencies in development can result in children
    learning behaviour patterns that are both inefficient
    and ineffective. Learned coping patterns, however,
    may not always work. New interpersonal or
    occupational role demands may create an overload
    and produce excessive anxiety and difficulty for the
    individual.
    IMPROVING RELATIONSHIPS
    Many clients tend to have major problems relating to
    others due to poor self-image. Likewise, inadequate
    social skills cause individuals to act defensively in
    relationships. Typical social difficulties can be
    observed in family, marital and peer group interaction
    (e.g., the troubled elementary school child). The
    counselor would then strive to help the client improve
    the quality of their lives by developing more effective
    interpersonal relationships.
    FACILITATING CLIENT POTENTIAL
    Counseling seeks to maximize an individual’s freedom
    by giving him or her control over their environment
    while analyzing responsiveness and reaction to the
    environment. Counselors will work to help people
    learn how to overcome, for example, excessive
    substance use and to better take care of their bodies.
    FACILITATING BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
    Most theorists indicate that the goal of counseling is
    to bring about change in behaviour that will enable the
    client to be more productive as they define their life
    within society’s limitations. According to Rodgers
    (1961), behaviour change is a necessary result of the
    counseling process, although specific behaviours
    receive little or no emphasis during the process.
    PROMOTING DECISION-MAKING
    The goal of counseling is to enable the individual to
    make critical decisions regarding alternative courses
    of action without outside influence. Counseling will
    help individuals obtain information, and to clarify
    emotional concerns that may interfere with or be
    related to the decisions involved. These individuals will
    acquire an understanding of their abilities and
    interests. They will also come to identify emotions and
    attitudes that could influence their choices and
    decisions.
    SCOPE OF
    INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING
    1. Adolescent identity, concerns, teen-parent relationships,
    peer relationships
    2. Anxiety
    3. Anger management
    4. Children’s concerns within the family unit, sibling
    relationships, school experiences, peer relationships
    5. Depression
    6. Family of origin dynamics and issues
    7. Gender: identity, sexuality, homosexuality
    INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING
    1. Relationships: personal and interpersonal dynamics
    2. Sexual abuse recovery
    3. Seniors: challenges, limitations, transitions
    4. Singles: single, newly single, single through divorce or
    being widowed
    5. Spirituality
    6. Stress management
    7. Workplace stress and relationships
    8. Young adult: identity, relationships, vocation
    MARITAL AND PRE-MARITAL
    COUNSELLING
    1. Marital and relational dynamics
    2. Extended family relationships
    3. Fertility issues
    FAMILY COUNSELLING
    1. Adolescent and child behaviours within family dynamics
    2. Adult children
    3. Divorce and separation issues and adjustment
    4. Family dynamics: estrangement, conflict,
    communication
    5. Family of origin / extended family issues
    6. Life stages and transitions
    7. Parenting patterns: blended, single, co-parenting
    families

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