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Unit 13: Types of Counseling: Directive Counseling

(iii) The counselor can look the client directly. Notes
• Limitations of Directive Counseling :

(i) In this process the client is more dependent. He is also less able to solve new problems of
adjustment.
(ii) As the client is never independent of the counselor, it is not an efficient best guidance.
(iii) Unless an until a person does not develop some attitude through experiences, he cannot
make any decision himself.

13.7 Keywords

Directive : Giving instruction.
Analysis : The detailed study or examination of something in order to understand more
about it.
Diagnosis : Connected with identifying something, especially an illness.
Prognosis : An opinion, based on medical experiences, of the likely development of a disease.
13.8 Review Questions

1. Describe the Directive (psychoanalytic theory) approach of Counseling.
2. Explain the different steps of directive approach.
3. What are the advantages of Directive Counseling ?
4. Give the limitations of directive Counseling.

Answers : Self Assessment
1. (i) (a) (ii) (c) (iii) (c) (iv) (d) (v) (a)

13.9 Further Readings

1. Guidance & Counseling: S. Nageshwara Rao, Discovery Publishing House
2. Guidance & Counselince: B.G. Barki, B.Kukh, Opadhyay, Sterling Publishers
Pvt. Ltd.
3. Guidance & Counseling : Suzanne E. Wade. Pam Schuctz, Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.

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