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Personal and Professional Qualities for an Effective Counselor

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Abstract

This research paper discusses the qualities that are necessary for an effective counseling and as such any counselor considered effective must posses them. The paper has a separate discussion of both personal and professional qualities required for any good counselor. The personal qualities form a larger part of the discussion because the professional qualities depend wholly on the individual characteristics since professional qualities alone can’t qualify a counselor but effective personal qualities alone can make a good counselor. The main objectives of this paper is to set pace for subsequent studies on the area of effective counseling but more importantly, the paper is aimed at giving insight to practicing counselors and individuals who have the ambition of taking guidance and counseling as a career. Through learning the qualities necessary for effective counseling, individuals can exercise them and build their career to reputable and professional counselors.

Personal and Professional Qualities Necessary for an Effective Counselor

Counseling is process whose main objective is to help other individuals make better choices of their lives and make them better decision makers of present alternatives (Gladding, 2008). The counselor qualities involve those attributes that will help in forming working counseling relationships as well as building proper intervention programs that will help clients change their thinking, perceptions, attitudes and feelings. The guidance and counseling profession has called for the possession of both personal and professional characteristics that are necessary for admission into the guidance and counseling activities as well

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