Psychology and Mental Health
Contents
* Counseling- Definition * Factors contributing to the emergence of counseling * Important period in the development of counseling * Conclusion
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DEFINITION OF COUNSELLING:
According to Willy and Andrew:
Counseling is mental learning process. It involves two individuals- one seeking help and other a professionally trained person helping the first to orient and direct him towards a goal which leads to his maximum development and growth in his environment.
“The goal of counseling is to help individuals overcome many of their future problems”
Though the need for attention to the whole individual had been recognized by educators since the time of Socrates, it was only during the 20th century. Those researchers actually began to study and accumulate information about guidance.
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE EMERGENCE OF CONSELLING:
* Technological changes
Technological changes have made a major impact upon people’s lives and work.
Industrialization has resulted in social and vocational mobility. It has affected child rearing practices also.
One of the important ways in which man tried to cope with the rapidly changing world around him was to start the guidance movement.
The guidance movement later led to the growth of counseling psychology in the first decade of the twentieth century, based on man’s concern for his fellow men and their well being.
Counseling must have existed in one form or another since the very beginning of human civilization. Man must have sought comfort, help and solace from family and close associates. However, it is only in the recent past that counseling emerged as a distinct branch of psychology.
Modern counseling is a product of the educational system-more especially of the American education system.
It deep roots in the concern for an individual’s by inertia and acts only when he must on stimulation. This view has many far reaching
* Counseling- Definition * Factors contributing to the emergence of counseling * Important period in the development of counseling * Conclusion
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DEFINITION OF COUNSELLING:
According to Willy and Andrew:
Counseling is mental learning process. It involves two individuals- one seeking help and other a professionally trained person helping the first to orient and direct him towards a goal which leads to his maximum development and growth in his environment.
“The goal of counseling is to help individuals overcome many of their future problems”
Though the need for attention to the whole individual had been recognized by educators since the time of Socrates, it was only during the 20th century. Those researchers actually began to study and accumulate information about guidance.
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE EMERGENCE OF CONSELLING:
* Technological changes
Technological changes have made a major impact upon people’s lives and work.
Industrialization has resulted in social and vocational mobility. It has affected child rearing practices also.
One of the important ways in which man tried to cope with the rapidly changing world around him was to start the guidance movement.
The guidance movement later led to the growth of counseling psychology in the first decade of the twentieth century, based on man’s concern for his fellow men and their well being.
Counseling must have existed in one form or another since the very beginning of human civilization. Man must have sought comfort, help and solace from family and close associates. However, it is only in the recent past that counseling emerged as a distinct branch of psychology.
Modern counseling is a product of the educational system-more especially of the American education system.
It deep roots in the concern for an individual’s by inertia and acts only when he must on stimulation. This view has many far reaching
References: www.counseling.com http://books.google.co.in/books Counseling and Guidance second Edition by S Narayana Rao(e-books) selling