Category: Counseling

  • Counseling: The Therapy Session

    Counseling is a significant factor influencing the behavioral change of human beings. Most counselors aim to narrate a story to the victim in a more affirming way to the affected person rather than using the victim’s account to humiliate them, which helps improve the affected person’s self-esteem. Counseling is a therapy session meant to improve…

  • Relational and Clinical Approaches to Counseling

    Counseling can be generally defined as a process that helps people work through challenges in their lives. There are various types of counseling, but two common approaches are clinical and relational counseling. Clinically trained counselors are taught to assess and diagnose psychological disorders. They are additionally trained in the use of psychotherapy, which is a…

  • Relevance of Counseling Theories to Specific Interventions

    The foundations of psychoanalytic therapy theories argue that psychological difficulties result from unconscious psychological urges or motivations that result from previous interpersonal connections and experiences. The clients’ past harmful thought and behavior patterns have matured into “cosmological models” that direct them toward continued unhealthy thought and behavior in the present (Hofmann & Hayes, 2018). Psychoanalytic…

  • Cultures and Worldviews in Counseling

    Introduction According to Clinton and Ohlschlager (2002), it would prove quite inappropriate, on the part of a counselor, to pay little attention to what happened to be the particulars of the treated client’s ethnocultural affiliation. The reason for this is that, while aware of what accounts for these particulars’ discursive significance, a counselor would be…

  • Working With Mandated Ordered Client in Group Counseling

    The Most Difficult Type of Client (s) To Work With In Treatment Group counseling is important for character transformation and psychological treatment. Professional counselors act as stewards during group counseling sessions (Harel, Shectman & Cutrona, 2012). Ideally, a standard group counseling session is normally composed of persons from different backgrounds. This means that these categories…

  • Counseling of Juvenile Males and Recidivism

    Table of Contents Introduction Statement Of The Problem Purpose Of Research Literature Review Research Methodology The Research Variables The Benefit Of The Study Limitations of The Study Conclusion References Introduction The rate of juvenile crimes especially in males seems to be rising and the trend has had many innocent people affected by these crimes. A…

  • Individual Counseling: Collaborative Goal Setting and Effectiveness

    Collaborative goal setting is one of the conditions of effective counseling relationships. The individual counselor should create the atmosphere of acceptance and sincerity promoting the collaboration. To achieve a reliable counseling alliance, the counselor and the client should equally understand the purpose of the teamwork. In the case of Sienna, the counselor performed her mission…

  • Careers in Clinical and Counseling Geropsychology

    Clinical psychology Introduction Psychology is a vast field of intellectual endeavor. As a result, there are numerous areas of specialization. Some of the more popular specializations under the umbrella of psychology are listed as follows: clinical psychology; counseling psychology; educational psychology; neuropsychology; geropsychology or the psychology of aging. For this study, I decided to focus…

  • Counseling Therapy: Josie Case

    What are the key advocacy issues or risk factors impacting this case? Cultural factors In most cultures, people with disability are often victimized and secluded from societal activities. The victimization coupled with seclusion results in low self-esteem among the special group of individuals (Lago, 2005). Josie has undergone victimization and seclusion from the soccer team…

  • Group Counseling Management and Duties

    Introduction Before the session commences, I must ensure I have informed the participants on the length of time necessary during the process helping to deter some people within the group not to use too much of the “air time” when the time for asking and answering questions comes. This will also enable one to manage…