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Guidance and Counseling Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 16: Interview Process in Counseling

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
16.1 Meaning of Interview
16.2 Steps within the Interview Process
16.3 Relationship Between Counselor Counselee
16.4 Interviewing Techniques in Counseling
16.5 Relationship Techniques
16.6 Sharing of Experience
16.7 Summary
16.8 Keywords
16.9 Review Questions
16.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After reading this unit students will be able to:
• Explain the meaning of interview in Counseling
• Discuss the steps within the interview process
• Discuss the relationship between Counselor-Counselor
• Explain the interviewing techniques in counseling
• Discuss the relationship techniques and sharing experience

Introduction

In a counseling lnterview, the counselee, after having been put at ease, is encouraged to talk freely.
The counselor assumes the attitude of an interested, sympathetic and friendly listener. He neither
evaluates nor judges the counselee’s statements. Thus the essential characteristic of a counseling
interview consists in its being non-judgemental and non-evaluative. The counselor empathizes with
the counselee’s emotional needs. He makes the counselee aware of being unconditionally accepted.
This particular aspect does not concern the other types of interviews. The counselor is concerned
equally with what the counselee tries to express but fails to communicate. The counselor is basically
concerned with the clarification, interpretation and understanding of the counselee’s feelings, ideas
and longings. In this process, there is no place for any anxiety or stress being put on the counselee.

16.1 Meaning of Interview
An interview is a face-to-face technique of obtaining information for a variety of purposes. It is well
known as a hiring (selection) technique. It is also employed as a technique of research (market
research, consumer research, etc.). The counseling interview differs from the above in that its goals
are significantly different and information getting is not its major interest.What is of crucial importance
is that it is therapeutic in its goal.

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