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Guidance and Counseling Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 17: Counseling Services: Individual Counseling

CONTENTS
Objective
Introduction
17.1 Concept of Individual Counseling
17.2 Need of Individual Counseling
17.3 Nature of Individual Counseling Problems
17.4 Formal Individual Counseling
17.5 Advantages of Individual Counseling
17.6 Disadvantages of Individual Counseling
17.7 Summary
17.8 Keywords
17.9 Review Questions
17.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After reading this unit students will be able to:
• Discuss the concept of individual Counseling.
• Discuss the need of individual Counseling.
• Explain the nature of individual Counseling problems.
• Discuss formal Individual Counseling.
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of individual Counseling.

Introduction

Individual counselling focuses on such issues as depression (including postpartum depression), anxiety,
panic disorders, family-of-origin issues, communication issues that prevent effective relationships,
stress management, substance abuse recovery, loss, meaning-of-life issues, forgiveness issues,
grieving, emotional issues, sexual assault, abuse, effects of family violence, transitional issues,
anger management, coping, and more.
Individual Counseling is the component of guidance aimed at helping an individual to plan, to do
or to adjust according to his particular needs. All guidance activities aim at human welfare and for
this close relationship between the counselor and counselee is must. In other words guidance or
counselling refers to help given to an individual towards a better adjustment in the development of
attitudes and behaviour in all areas of life.

17.1 Concept of Individual Counseling

The science of psychology has advanced so far that it becomes possible, within limits, to predict
certain kinds of behaviour if we know or can control certain antecedent conditions. Rogers properly
conceives that this possibility contains grave dangers for mankind.

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