Disciplines of

Counseling
1. To identify the goals and scope of
counseling. LEARNING
OBJECTIVES

2. Infer your own perspective on the

purpose of counseling by citing
applicable situation.
When was the last time you ask for
help?

To whom did you ask from help:

Why did you ask for help?

Dear Counci,
• What is counseling?
• What are the goals of counseling?
• What are the scopes of ESSENTIAL
QUESTIONS
counseling?
• In which aspects of human life can
counseling be of real value?
What Counseling is
Put a check before the statement if it
is correct and a cross if it is NOT.
 The counselor shares confidential personal
information with another family member
when there is no handled by professionally
trained person who helped solved problems
to orient and direct him towards a goal.
The counselor attempts to
solve the problem compelling
reason to do so.
The counselor forms a too-
close relationship with a client
The counselor labels the client.
Counselling is a specific process
of assistance extended by an
expert in an individual situation to
a needy person
Counseling – For Nystul
(2003) defined it as basically
an art and a science wherein
you endeavor to weigh the CONTENT
objective and subjective facets
of the counseling process.
AS AN ART
 is the subjective dimension of
counseling. It upholds a flexible and
creative process whereby the
counselor modifies the approach to
meet the developing needs of the
clients.
AS A SCIENCE
is the objective dimension
of the counseling process.
IN PRACTICAL TERMS
counseling happens when a person who is
distressed asks for help and permit another
person to enter into a kind of connection with
him/her. It is indicative with formal of someone
in search of counseling requests for time and
attention from person who will listen, who will
allow him/her to speak and who will not
condemn and criticize him/her.
INFORMAL HELPING
is a kin with formal helping
in some ways such as
presence of good listening
skills, empathy, and caring
capacity.
Based on Guidance and Counseling Act of
2004, guidance and counseling is the profession
that implicates the application of “ an integrated
approach to the development of a well-functioning
individual “ through the provision of support that
aids an individual to use his/her potential to the
fullest in accord with his/her interest , needs and
abilities. (University of Queensland, 2015).
At the American Counseling Association
(ACA) Conference in Pittsburgh in March 2010,
the representatives come to an agreement on a
mutual definition of counseling. They agreed
that counseling is a professional relationship
that empowers diverse individuals, families and
group to accomplish mental health, wellness,
education, and career goals (Kaplan, Tarvydas,
and Gladding, 2014).
What is the purpose
of Counseling?
The ultimate aim of
counseling is to enable the
client to make their own
choices, reach their own
decisions and act on them.
(www. skillsyouneed.com)
Goals of Counseling – the
key component of individual,
group, organizational and
community success
Detailed and expansive
counseling goals have been
identified by Gibson and
Mitchell (2003), which are as
follows:
 1 Development Goals
assist in meeting or
advancing the client’s
human growth and
development including
social,personal,emotional
,cognitive, and physical
wellness.
 2 Preventive Goals

help the client avoid some

undesired outcomes.

Anticipate
Accommodate
 3 Enhancement Goals
enhance special skills
and abilities.

Human Potential
 4 Remedial Goals
assisting a client to overcome and treat an
undesirable development
Functional Impairment
 5 Exploratory Goals

examining of options,
testing of skills, trying
new and different
activities.
 6 Reinforcement Goals

help clients in
recognizing that what
they are doing,
thinking, and feeling
is fine.
 7 Cognitive Goals
involve acquiring the
basic foundation of
learning and cognitive
skills.
 8 Physiological Goals

involve acquiring the

basic understanding and
habits for good health
 9 Psychological Goals

aid in developing good social

interaction skills, learning
emotional control, and
developing positive self-concept.
 List of counseling
goals, some of which
are enhancement of the
above goals.
 Understanding of the origins

Insight and development of emotional

difficulties, leading to an
increased capacity to take
rational control over feelings
and actions
 Becoming better able to
Relating with form and maintain
meaningful and satisfying
others relationships with other
people: for example , within
the family or workplace
 Becoming more aware of
thoughts and feelings that
Self- awareness had been blocked off or
denied, or developing a
more accurate sense of
how self is perceived by
others
 The development of a
positive attitude toward
Self- acceptance self, marked by an ability to
acknowledge areas of
experience that had been
the subject of self- criticism
and rejection
 Moving in the direction
Self – actualization of fulfilling potential or
achieving an integration
of previously conflicting
parts of self.
 Assisting the client
Enlightenment to arrive at a higher
state of spiritual
awakening
 Finding a solution to a
specific problem that the
Problem- Solving client had not been able to
resolve alone. Acquiring a
general competence
in problem – solving
 Enabling the client to
Psychological acquire ideas and
education techniques with which
to understand and control
behavior
 Learning and mastering social
Acquisition of Social
and interpersonal skills such as
Skills
maintenance of eye contact ,
turn taking in conversations,
assertive, or anger control
 The modification or
replacement of irrational
Cognitive change beliefs or mal adaptive
thought patterns associated
with self- destructive
behavior
 The modification or
replacement of irrational
Behavior change beliefs or mal adaptive
thought patterns associated
with self- destructive
behavior
 Introducing
Systematic
change change into the
way in that social
systems operate
 Working on skills ,
awareness, and
Empowerment knowledge that will
enable to client to take
control of his or her own
life
 Helping the client to
Restitution make amends for
previous destructive
behavior
 Inspiring in the person a
desire and capacity to care
Generality for others and pass on
knowledge and to
contribute to the collective
good through political
engagement
Scope of Counseling
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING
• Adolescent identity, concerns, teen-parent
relationships, peer relationships
• Anxiety
• Anger management
• Children’s concerns within the family unit, sibling
relationships, school experiences, peer
relationships
• Depression
• Family of origin dynamics and issues
• Gender: identity, sexuality, homosexuality
• Relationships: personal and interpersonal dynamics
• Sexual abuse recovery
• Seniors: challenges, limitations, transitions
• Singles: single, newly single, single through divorce
or being widowed
• Spirituality
• Stress management
• Workplace stress and relationships
• Young adult: identity, relationships, vocation
MARITAL AND PRE-MARITAL COUNSELLING
•Marital and relational
dynamics
• Extended family
relationships
• Fertility issues
FAMILY COUNSELLING
• Adolescent and child behaviors within
family dynamics
• Adult children
• Divorce and separation issues and
adjustment
• Family dynamics: estrangement, conflict,
communication
• Family of origin / extended family issues
• Life stages and transitions
A more focused subject matter related to
scope of counseling is the 4757-15 Scope
of Practice for Licensed Professional
Counselors. It contains the rights and
responsibilities of licensed counselors
including the following:

Source: http:codes.ohio.gov/oac/4757-15
1. Licensed Professional
Counselors may help for
a fee, salary, or other
considerations
2. Afford counseling services to individuals,
groups, organizations, or the general
public compromising of: application of clinical
counseling principles, methods, or
procedures to assist individuals in realizing
effective personal, social, educational, or
career development and adjustment.
3. “apply clinical counseling principles, methods , and
procedures “, means an approach to counseling that
emphasizes the counselor’s role in systematically
assisting clients through all of the following: assessing
and analyzing emotional conditions , exploring possible
solutions, and developing and providing treatment plan
for mental and emotional adjustment or development.
It may include counseling, appraisal, consulting,
supervision, administration, and referral
4. Engage in the diagnosis and treatment
of mental and emotional disorders when
under the supervision of a professional
clinical counselor, psychologist,
psychiatrists, independent marriage and
family therapist, or independent social
worker.
5. Provide training supervision for
students and registered counselor
trainees when services are within their
scope of practice, which does not include
supervision of the diagnosis and
treatment of mental and emotional
disorders.