Introduction to Counseling



Introduction to Counseling

Introduction

Counseling has now become a most diverse career with various choices of field in it, from career counseling to family and individual concealing, there are a lot of advances being made in this field. The counseling is one of the fields that are now more in demand. This requires the proper guidance and information about understanding the client and identifying the problem. The counseling is itself become a career and it is not just limited to one field but there are a lot of diversified and advance career possibilities available. For those who are looking for career in counseling need to understand the possibilities and right career choices available for them first. This emphasized the importance of proper understanding of counseling method with the help of correct approach in their better career choice for the future. This is important to remember that as counseling is a diverse field and there are different cases and various complex issues that need to be resolved. This requires special attention and knowledge to choose a right field. Once the field of career counseling is once selected, there is need to understand the proper methods to resolve the matters properly by identifying client, problem, theory, technique and approach to solve the problem (Nugent, & Jones, 2008).

Thesis Statement

Counseling specialty requires identification of client, problem, theories, approaches and techniques to resolve the problem.

Discussion

Identify a client and describe the problem

Counseling is the field that requires the proper understanding of the client's psychology first. There is need to identify the exact problem and the reason behind the problem. To understand this there is need to first focus on counseling and counseling specialty. Counsiling is the proper guidance to the problem in an individual's cognitive behavior and other understandings; this requires the proper and attentive listening to the client's complaints and then identifying the problem and then looking for proper solution to it. According to Corey the counseling is the profession that requires proper understanding of the population and settings in which services are to be provided (Corey, 2011). This highlights the importance of specialty in the field of counseling and identification of client. Maki and Tarvydas defines various counseling specialty like; “addiction, career, school, mental health and rehabilitation” (Maki, & Tarvydas, 2011 p. 243). This emphasizes the importance of identifying the background and specialty of every client in identification of the problem.

Client and Problem

The client is a teenager involved in the drug abuse or the addiction problem due to family neglect and bad social company. This requires the investigation of the problem on the basis of case history and it require the proper examination and analysis of the problem. There are various methods use for the identification of the client and the problem for example interviewing the client and asking relevant questions. It also necessary to note that the client should be provided enough opportunity to explain and tell whatever is in his mind. The counselor is required to keep taking the proper ...