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Unit 32 : Problems of Guidance and Counseling in India and their Solutions

• As counseling is a professional service and has an ethical code, it respects the confidences of Notes
the clients. The counselor has to secure the trust of the client and establish a healthy rapport.
• In the late sixties a populist and vocal women’s liberation movement made its appearance.
Marriage is no longer the only option for every woman. Some women deliberately opt out of
matrimony or choose to bear no children and become careerists. The modern woman is in a
world of transition with no specific traditions or conventions to guide her.
• Counseling is a dynamic process and the success or otherwise squarely depends on the nature
of the relationship. Counseling, ipso facto implies rapport. It is a friendly relationship of mutual
trust and confidence which underlies the establishment of a bond between the counselor and
the counsellee. Rapport enables the counsellee(s) to react spontaneously, warmly and
sympathetically. This emotional bridge between the counselor and counsellee(s) is basic to
and pervades all therapeutic relations.
• The counsellees have, by and large, limited experiences in dealing with professiona1s. They
are usually not able to understand the role they need to play. In such contexts the counselor
should structure or define the role of the clients (counsellees) and help them understand what
is required of them.
• The counsellee’s opposition to the goals of counseling is referred to as resistance. It manifests
itself in a variety of ways such as serf-devaluation, intellectualization and even overt hostility.
The counselor may be unfamiliar witn the nuances of the cultures of the weaker sections and
assess their behaviour as an instance or just another effect of social and economic deprivation.
• An individual’s reaction to a person in the present in a manner similar to the way he has
reacted to another person in the past is called transference.
• Transferences a counsellee reaction to the counselor in a manner he reacted to some other
person in the past. It is transferring of the counsellee’s feelings towards another person to the
counselor.
• Language is part of an individual’s culture or sub-culture. Inability to comprehend language
results in failure to understand the client.
• Self-disclosure
• This is the willingness to let another person know about what one thinks or feels or wants.
• Self-hatred
• Socially and economically weaker individuals sometimes tend not only to despise their groups,
but also hate themselves for being members of this group.
• Personalism
Another stubborn counseling barrier often experienced is personalism. It suggests that
individuals are more interested in their consideration for people than for procedures.
• Listening
• Sympathetic listening is the heart of the counseling process. It is often fallaciously considered
a passive activity.
• Modesty
• Modesty, usually considered a desirable quality, is not quite useful in counseling, especially
when the counsellee is too modest.
• In order to achieve the goals of counseling, the counselor must be able to relate to and to
communicate with his client. The counselor must be able to determine the client’s state of
existence.
• Determining preventive and corrective measures is quite difficult and applying them to socially
disadvantaged clients is not easy.

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