Counselling DIASS (Orteras)

Counselling as a
Discipline
Its Meaning, Goals,
Scope, Core Values
and Principles
The Meaning of Counselling
Counselling
- is a fundamental part in the area of
helping not only in social work but also in
guidance.
- is a particular process of helping aid to a
person who seeks help.
Goals of Counselling
1. Development Goals
-assist in meeting or advancing the clients
human growth and development including
social, personal, emotional,cognitive and
physical wellness.
2. Preventive goals
-helps the client avoid some undesired
outcome.
3. Enhancement Goals
-enhance special skills and abilities.
4. Remedial Goals
-assisting a client to overcome and treat an undesirable
development.
5. Exploratory Goals
-examining options ,testing of skills trying new and
different activities etc.
6. Reinforcement Goals
-helps client in recognizing that what they are doing,
thinking and feeling is fine.
7. Cognitive Goals
-involves acquiring the basic foundation of learning and
cognitive skills.
8. Physiological Goals
-involves acquiring the basic understanding and habits
for good health.
9.Psychological Goals
-aids in developing good social interaction skills, learning
emotional control, and developing positive self-concept.
understanding of the origins and the development
of emotional difficulties ,leading to an increased
Insight capacity to take rational control over feelings and
actions.
Becoming better able to form and maintain

Relating with meaningful and satisfying relationship with other
people, for example, within the family or workplace.
others
Becoming more aware of thoughts and feelings that

Self-awareness had been blocked or denied ,developing a more
accurate sense of how self is perceived by others.
The development of a positive attitude toward self,marked
by an ability to acknowledge areas of experience that had
Self-acceptance been the subject of self-criticism and rejection.
Moving in the direction of fulfilling potential or

Self-actualization achieving an integration of previously conflicting
parts of self.
assisting the client to arrive at a higher state of

Enlightenment spiritual awakening.
finding a solution to a specific problem that the client had
not been able to resolve alone and acquiring a general
Problem-solving competence in problem solving.
Enabling the client to a acquire ideas and techniques

Psychological with which to understand and control behaviour.
education
Learning and mastering social and interpersonal

Acquisition of skills such as a maintenance of eye contact ,turn
taking in conversations assertiveness or anger
social work control.
The modification or replacement of irrelational beliefs or
maladaptive thought patterns associated with self-
Cognitive change destructive patterns of behaviour.
The modification or replacement of maladaptive or

Behaviour change self destructive patterns of behaviour.
Systematic Introducing change into the way in that social systems

operate.
change
Working on skills ,awareness and acknowledge that will
Empowerment enable the client to take control of his or her own life.
Helping the client to make amends for previous

Restitution destructive behaviour.
Inspiring in the person a desire and capacity to care for

others and pass on knowledge and to contribute to the
Generativity collective good through political engagement and
community work.
Scope of Counselling
1. Afford counselling services to individuals, groups, organizations, or the
general public comprising of application of clinical counselling principles
methods etc.
2."apply clinical counselling principles, methods and procedures“ means

an approach to counselling that emphasizes the counsellor's role in
systematically assisting clients through all of the ff: assessing and
analysing emotional conditions ,exploring possible solutions etc.
3. Engage in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional
disorders when under the supervision of a professional clinical counsellor,
psychologist etc.
4. Provide training supervision for students and registered counsellor

trainees .
Core Values and Ethical
Principles of Counselling
Ethical Principles
1. Autonomy of individuals
-right to freedom of action and freedom of choice in so far as the pursuit
of these; counselling cannot happen unless the client has made a free
choice to participate
2. Principle of Non maleficence

-refers to instruction to all helpers or healers that they must ,above all,
do no harm;
-beneficence refers to the order to promote human welfare
-both no maleficence and beneficence occur in the prominence in codes
of practice that counsellors must warrant that they are trained to an
appropriate level of competence.
Ethical Principles
3.Principles of Justice
concerned with the fair distribution of resources and services ,unless there
is some acceptable reason for treating them differently.
4. Principle of Fidelity
-shares to the presence of loyal, reliability, dependability and action in
good faith.
General Moral Theories

*BACP Ethical Framework for good practice, drawing on virtues perspective that
all practitioners should possess:empathy,sincerity,integrity,resilience,respect,humil
ity,competence,fairness,wisdom,and courage

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Counselling as a

Becoming better able to form and maintain

Becoming more aware of thoughts and feelings that

Moving in the direction of fulfilling potential or

assisting the client to arrive at a higher state of

Enabling the client to a acquire ideas and techniques

Learning and mastering social and interpersonal

The modification or replacement of maladaptive or

Systematic Introducing change into the way in that social systems

Helping the client to make amends for previous

Inspiring in the person a desire and capacity to care for

2."apply clinical counselling principles, methods and procedures“ means

4. Provide training supervision for students and registered counsellor

2. Principle of Non maleficence

General Moral Theories

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