Module Example: Counseling
COUNSELING
Have you heard about counseling? What are your thoughts about counseling? When do you need to go and visit a counselor? Do you think counseling really helps? Other people might think that counseling is only for people who have mental problems that do not know how to handle their personal problems. Some might think that there are very few benefits from counseling and others might also think that there are no benefits from counseling while some are just so confident that they believe that they could solve their problems on their own. As you go on the pages of this module, we hope that you learn more about counseling and hopefully, you would be able to apply it on your life.
[pic] OBJECTIVES
By the end of this unit, you should be able to:
• Define Counseling.
• Enumerate the benefits of Counseling
• Identify and Recognize the different types of Counseling and it’s Approaches
• Differentiate Guidance from Counseling
WHAT IS COUNSELING?
Most people’s problems are not simplistic but result from a complicated intertwining of many factors. Economic hardships and personal problems can make it easy for life to feel overwhelming. Counseling offers people a vehicle to see their problems in a different light. This often provides a sense of hope and support for the changes that will improve their life situation. Through counseling, clients learn about their issues through a professional that offers an educated perspective on solutions. Clients learn methods of healthy functioning, maintaining and nourishing relationships, and individual problem solving. Counseling is a process of helping individuals or group of people to gain self-understanding in order to be themselves. Burker and Steffler (1979) see counseling as a professional relationship between a trained Counselor and a client. BAC (1984) said that counseling’ includes work with individuals and with relationships which
Have you heard about counseling? What are your thoughts about counseling? When do you need to go and visit a counselor? Do you think counseling really helps? Other people might think that counseling is only for people who have mental problems that do not know how to handle their personal problems. Some might think that there are very few benefits from counseling and others might also think that there are no benefits from counseling while some are just so confident that they believe that they could solve their problems on their own. As you go on the pages of this module, we hope that you learn more about counseling and hopefully, you would be able to apply it on your life.
[pic] OBJECTIVES
By the end of this unit, you should be able to:
• Define Counseling.
• Enumerate the benefits of Counseling
• Identify and Recognize the different types of Counseling and it’s Approaches
• Differentiate Guidance from Counseling
WHAT IS COUNSELING?
Most people’s problems are not simplistic but result from a complicated intertwining of many factors. Economic hardships and personal problems can make it easy for life to feel overwhelming. Counseling offers people a vehicle to see their problems in a different light. This often provides a sense of hope and support for the changes that will improve their life situation. Through counseling, clients learn about their issues through a professional that offers an educated perspective on solutions. Clients learn methods of healthy functioning, maintaining and nourishing relationships, and individual problem solving. Counseling is a process of helping individuals or group of people to gain self-understanding in order to be themselves. Burker and Steffler (1979) see counseling as a professional relationship between a trained Counselor and a client. BAC (1984) said that counseling’ includes work with individuals and with relationships which
References: Akinade, E. A., Sokan, B. O., Oseremen N. (1986). Introduction to Guidance and Counselling: A Basic Text for Colleges and Universities. Ibadan: Caltep. Idowu, A. I. (Ed) (1998). Guidance and Counselling in Education. Ilorin: Indemac. Kolo, F. D. (1992). Guidance and Counselling in Perspective Zaria: Sleveno Printing. Makinde, O. (1983). Fundamental of Guidance and Counselling. London: Macmillan.