DIASS Counseling

DIASS Counseling

THE DISCIPLINE OF COUNSELING 

It is a learning process in which individuals learn about themselves and their interpersonal relationships, and enact behaviors that advance their personal development”

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Counseling stresses the client’s taking responsibility over their actions.

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Counselors give advice to clients to help them solve their problems

• True

• False

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Counseling can be an avenue for self-exploration and self discovery wherein the clients can gain more understanding about the self.

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• False

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Counseling is a helping relationship between counselors and clients.

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• False

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Counseling is an art where counselors adjusts the approach to the unique and emerging needs of the client.

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Goals in the counseling process are determined solely by the counselors.

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• False

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Counseling is for curing serious mental disorders

• True

• False

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Counseling targets the development of the client’s emotional, social, mental, and moral maturity.

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• False

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Professional counseling means giving advice, recommendations, and suggestions.

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• False

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Counseling is the skilled and principled use of relationship to facilitate self- knowledge, emotional acceptance and growth and the optimal development of personal resources.

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• False

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Why is counseling an art and, at the same time, a science? Why is counseling defined as a relationship? Why is counseling referred to as an emerging helping profession?

The Goals of Counseling

The goal setting is a key component of individual, group, organizational and community success. Counseling, like any form of assistance, must be motivated by objectives. It will be more difficult to achieve the desired target if you do not or are not conscious of the objectives. The primary objective of counseling is to help people use their prevailing social skills and problem-solving skills more functionally or to develop new survival and coping skills. The comprehensive and broad therapy goals defined by Gibson and Mitchell (2003) are as follows:

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