Counseling

Introduction

Almost every phase of life requires counseling, academic counseling, marriage counseling, financial counseling, therapeutic counseling, psychological counseling and the list goes on. Counseling on the whole refers to providing guidance and assistance after conversation with an individual in order to resolve social, personal and psychological issues especially by a trained professional. The objective of counselor is usually to orient the person in the direction of opportunities which could best assure satisfaction and compliance of his particular aspirations and needs. The therapist generally tries to elucidate the client's personal thoughts instead of directly solving his problems.

This document particularly talks particularly about counseling involved in therapeutic dimension. Personal counseling and group counseling are the basic two approaches of counseling. This document will focus on counseling approach for health promotion.

Discussion

There is no denial to the fact that counseling is an important element of any health care approach. From diagnosis of the disease to health care promotion plans, counseling is required at every step. Counseling does not only involve guidance but also exchange of opinions that can generate those guidance pathways.

Communication is the most critical element in patient centered health care. Community nurses should have perfect communication skills to ensure maximum level interaction with native individuals that will facilitate them to provide maximum level healthcare benefits to those individuals. Counseling involves good communication skills so that one might diagnose problem and offer solutions to it. In my nursing practice counseling will help me interact with my patients and provide them with high quality care that will satisfy their health care needs and also to promote health.

Health care promotion specifically requires counseling. Without directing people towards specified goals one just cannot achieve. Health promotion is an approach intended to enable people to set a health care plan in motion that is directed towards achieving positive goals in regards with health status of the population. This means that, health-promotion is not some-thing that is performed on or to the individuals; however, it is performed by, with and for individuals either on personal or group level. The intent behind this pursuit is to enhance and reinforce the capabilities and skills of people to make health-care desired outcomes happen and the potential of communities or organizations to operate mutually to exert control over the determinants of health and attain significant difference in terms of positive and desired results. Any possible approach towards health promotion for any healthcare professional like nursing is impossible without proper group or personal counseling.

Counseling in health care setup is also used for rehabilitation purposes. Group psychotherapy and individual psychotherapy are two forms of counseling. Online counseling is the new emerging form these days. Group psychotherapy, just like personal mental therapy, is designed to help out individuals who wish to strengthen their potentials to tackle and problems and difficulties in one or the other phase in their lives. However, during private psychotherapy the patient encounters with only one individual (the psychologist), in group psycho therapies the meeting is with an entire group of ...