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Teves, Jonah G. - SW - 21 Note Taking Summary - Module 1 Social Work Counseling

Counseling is defined as a short-term helping profession that aims to resolve developmental and situational difficulties through change in thought, emotion, and behavior. It deals with personal, social, vocational, and educational concerns. Counseling is a process where clients learn to make decisions and develop new ways of behaving, feeling, and thinking to achieve their goals. The counseling process involves five stages: building rapport, in-depth exploration of problems, goal setting, counseling interventions, and evaluation or termination. Common misconceptions about counseling include thinking the counselor's role is to give advice or that counseling is only for people with serious mental health issues.

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Teves, Jonah G. - SW - 21 Note Taking Summary - Module 1 Social Work Counseling

Counseling is defined as a short-term helping profession that aims to resolve developmental and situational difficulties through change in thought, emotion, and behavior. It deals with personal, social, vocational, and educational concerns. Counseling is a process where clients learn to make decisions and develop new ways of behaving, feeling, and thinking to achieve their goals. The counseling process involves five stages: building rapport, in-depth exploration of problems, goal setting, counseling interventions, and evaluation or termination. Common misconceptions about counseling include thinking the counselor's role is to give advice or that counseling is only for people with serious mental health issues.

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TEVES, JONAH G.

| SW - 21

Note Taking Summary - Module 1

Social Work Counseling

"INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELING"

DEFINITION OF COUNSELING

 Counseling can be defined, as an art and science. It’s a short term, interpersonal, theory based,
helping profession. Its aim is to resolve developmental and situational difficulties. Counseling
helps to bring change in life: thought; emotion; and change in behavior.
 Counseling is also a profession. Practitioners should complete a prescribed course of study
usually leading to a master’s degree or a doctorate degree. Counselors are members of
organizations that set professional and ethical standards and promote state licensing and
certification by national associations (Wittmer & Loesch, 1986).
 Counseling deals with personal, social, vocational, empowerment, and educational concerns.
Counselors work only in areas in which they have expertise. These areas may include intra-and
interpersonal concerns related to school or college adjustment, psychological health, aging,
marriage/ family issues, employment, and rehabilitation.
 Counseling is conducted with persons who are considered to function within the “normal range”.
Clients have adjustment, development, or situational concerns; and their problems require
short-term intervention.
 Counseling is a process in which clients learn how to make decisions and formulate new ways of
behaving, feeling, and thinking. Counselors focus on the goals their clients wish to achieve.
Clients explore their present levels of functioning and the changes that must be made to achieve
personal objectives.
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

 Guidance and Counseling is refers to a planned and organized work aimed at assisting the
trainee to understand himself/herself and his/her abilities and develop his/her potentialities in
order to solve problems and achieve psychological, social, educational and professional
compatibility, and also to achieve objectives within the framework of teachings.

NOTION AND MISCONCEPTION ABOUT COUNSELING (MYTH)

 Counselor’s role is to give “advice”.


 Counseling is only for “crazy people” or people with “problems”.
 Counselor’s role is to give “advice”.
 Counseling is a last resort.
 Counselor does not know me and can’t help me.
 Counselors just sit there, nod, and stay silent.
 Counseling takes forever.
 Everyone will know I’m seeing a counselor.
 Couples counseling always makes one person the villain.
 Counseling will change who I am forever.
 Counseling is expensive.
 Therapy is like having a paid friend.
 Going to a counselor means I am out of control.
 Therapists will blame you and shame you.
 Medication is just as effective as therapy.
 Counselors can give solutions to all problems and can cure giving medicines.
 Therapy is all happy thoughts.
 Counselors can read the mind and draw out the deep dark secrets.
 There’s nothing you can do about the past.
 Counseling is only for Men/ Women.
 Therapy will make your painful problems worse.

STEPS IN THE COUNSELING PROCESS


1. STAGE ONE: RELATIONSHIP BUILDING - INITIAL DISCLOSURE
2. STAGE TWO: IN DEPTH EXPLORATION - PROBLEM ASSESSMENT
3. STAGE THREE: GOAL SETTING - COMMITMENT TO ACTION
4. STAGE FOUR: COUNSELING INTERVENTION
5. STAGE FIVE: EVALUATION, TERMINATION OR REFERRAL

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