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Guidance and Counseling

Notes • Even when addictions or anger counselling will follow, most family counselors will want to
see each partner (and sometimes each family member) for at least one session to gather
information that can better facilitate future work.
• Individual counselling is useful for identified problems such as those originating in family-of-
origin, for grief and loss, job related stress issues, meaning of life issues.
• Because the individual attends alone, the entire session is devoted to that person (rather than
to a couple or family).
• The individual can learn how one person making changes can help to create changes in the
couple or family system.
• When partners or other family members refuse to attend counselling the individual will be
able to learn some useful skills for relating those absent members.
• When the individual is currently having or has engaged in non-disclosed infidelity, it is useful
to spend some individual time with the counselor before couples relationship counselling.
• And other advantages. Describe the concern/issue as clearly as possible when you first contact
the counselor.

17.6. Disadvantages of Individual Counseling

• When a partner or other family member is affected, the counselor is only hearing one person’s
perspective, and will be less knowledgeable in helping the individual identify problems and
setting appropriate goals.
• Working with a professional counselor can help couples re-discover the reasons they wanted
to be with their partner, realize the strengths that still exist, and decide to work on repairing
their relationship. This is far more difficult to accomplish through individual counselling.
• And Other disadvantages. Describe the concern/issue as clearly as possible when you first
contact the counselor.

What is initial interview procedure?

Self Assessment

2. Fill in the blanks
(i) The ................... is best councelling technique for the treatment of emotional disturbance
which are serious is nature.
(ii) The Approach to the study of young children is ................... in which children are supposed
to give went to their unconsious desires.
(iii) ................... is useful for identified problems such as those originating in family of origin for
grief and loss.
(iv) After each interview the Councellor should make some ................... in order to keep a running
record of what has transpired through the series of interviews.
17.7. Summary

• 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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