Approaches To Counseling
Approaches To Counseling
Approaches To Counseling
Introduction
Counselling is to assist individuals in
• Learning about themselves
• Learning about environment around them
• Relationship of individual to environment
• Conscious effort to help in learning about Role and responsibilities
• Not always remedial
• understanding the behaviour pattern
• Undesirable pattern and change in behaviour
• Emotional and interpersonal adjustment
Need of guidance and counselling
• Need for Personal adjustment
• Problems of adjustment is universal
So What is adjustment?
In biology
• Adaptation
In psychology
• how an individual manages living by his/her wisdom
Young and adults determination of psychological and social identity
Eg Frustration
• It prevent (a plan or action) from progressing
• succeeding, or being fulfilled. prevent (someone) from doing or
achieving something
• cause (someone) to feel dissatisfied or unfulfilled
• Inferiority
Need of guidance and counselling
• Personal adjustment in crucial situation
• Elementary level students are in developmental stage i.e. physical,
social emotional and personality
• Need of a referee/ critical friend
• High school level students need guidance on relationship, skills
behavioural aspects and values
• At dropout situations of schooling period
• At college level Adult learners need support in problems like crime,
offence and drugs
How teaching is different from
counselling????
Approaches to counselling
Need of a theory
“A system composed of empirical data derived from observation
and/or experimentation, and of their interpretation ”
Counselling is based on a theory
A theory becomes an approach when it is practiced for problem
solving
Approaches
Approaches to counselling
• Humanistic approach – Self- Actualization – Person centered
• Behaviouristic approach
• Psychoanalytic approach
Humanistic counseling
• Humanistic counseling theories hold that people have within
themselves all the resources they need to live healthy and functional
lives, and that problems occur as a result of restricted or unavailable
problem-solving resources.
Cognitive counseling
• Cognitive counseling theories hold that people experience
psychological and emotional difficulties when their thinking is out of
sync with reality.
Behavioral counseling
• Behavioral counseling theories hold that people engage in
problematic thinking and behavior when their environment supports
it. When an environment reinforces or encourages these problems,
they will continue to occur.
Psychoanalytic counseling
• Psychoanalytic counseling theories hold that psychological problems
result from the present-day influence of unconscious psychological
drives or motivations stemming from past relationships and
experiences.
Constructionist counseling
• Constructionist counseling theories hold that knowledge is merely an
invented or “constructed” understanding of actual events in the
world.
Systemic counseling
• Systemic counseling theories hold that thinking, feeling and behavior
are largely shaped by pressures exerted on people by the social
systems within which they live.