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Guidance and Counseling

Notes (ii) Bureau of Psychology .............provides education and vocational guidance based on
psychometric date
(a) Mumbai (b) Allahabad (c) New Delhi (d) Nasik
(iii) The family planning association of India (FPAI) offers counseling for family welfare at
its .............
(a) Calcutta and Chennai (b) Bhubneshwar and Nasik
(c) Bombay and New Delhi (d) Trivandrum and Tamil Nadu

11.6 Summary

• “Counseling is a learning oriented process carried in a simple one to one social environment
in which the counselor, professionally competent in relevant psychological skills and
knowledge seeks to assist the client by methods appropriate to the latter’s needs and within
the context of the total personnel programme, to learn bow to put such understanding into
effect in relation to more clearly perceived, condition.”
• Counseling aims at helping the clients understand and accept themselves “as they are”, such
that they are able to work towards realizing their potential. Often this requires modification
of attitudes, outlook and behaviour. The nature of the counseling process depends on the
setting or the situation.
• Counseling is in its essence a ‘helping relationship’. All of us seek to satisfy our personal
needs.
• But through the process of socialization in childhood, and later through education, we learn
to moderate our desires such that there is no open clash. We may learn to suppress a few
desires and inhibit other needs so long as our happiness is not endangered.
• The counseling psychologist alleviates this suffering by establishing a helping relationship.
In the words of Rogers.
• Psychological Counseling Centres Educational Institutions in India: The pressure of exams
and the anxiety stress caused around that time is leading to various complications. Due to
all this, a new discussion is happening among the academic experts.
• They are suggesting it is time for all the educational institutions across India to set up a
psychological counseling centre. This should take care of the students who are going through
any sort of emotional and mental trauma and get them out of their problem. While few
colleges have already begun working on that, they are reporting that there is a sharp
increase in students seeking counseling during the times of examinations.
• The experts say by having counseling centres, the students can be moulded to face life and
challenges with more confidence.
• The counselor has the goal of understanding the behaviour, motivations and feelings of the
counsellee. The counselor’s goals are not limited to understanding his clients.
• The goal of counseling is to help individuals overcome their immediate problems and also
to equip them to meet future problems. Rapid social change brought about, by
industrialization and urbanization has led to several perplexing problems.
• A statement of goals is not only important but also necessary, for it provides a sense of
direction and purpose. Additionally, it is necessary for a meaningful evaluation of the
usefulness of it. It is only in terms of the defined goals that it is possible to judge the
meaningfulness or otherwise of any activity, including counseling.
• The process goals comprise facilitating procedures for enhancing the effectiveness of
counseling. The long-range goals are those that reflect the counselor’s philosophy of life
and could be stated as :

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