1. COUNSELLING DR. ARVIND BARAD MBBS, MD (P), FIPS, MAPA (U. S
COUNSELLING DR. ARVIND BARAD MBBS, MD (P), FIPS, MAPA (U.S.A) CONSULTANT NEUROPSYCHIATRIST DEPTT. OF PSYCHIATRY, SMS MEDICAL COLLEGE, JAIPUR

2. What is Counselling?
Counselling deals with persons at problem points. They consult them when their capacities for responding to the demands of life are strained, when desired growth seems unattainable, when important decisions elude resolution, and when natural support systems are unavailable or insufficient. Sometimes the person in need of help is urged or required to seek counselling by a third party- spouse, parent, employer, teacher, or judge- who believes the individual is failing to manage some important aspect of life effectively.

3. Basic Assumptions About Counselling
Human behaviour is changeable either from within or without or both.
Man is basically rational and reality oriented.
Most problems, difficulities and maladjustments are transient in nature and can be handled and dealt with.
Counselling is helping / facilitative activities.

4. Counselling helps individuals to :-
discvover their needs.
assess their potentialities.
develop their life schemes.
formulate ways to achieve these schemes.
proceed to their realization.
Counselling is not solving a particular individual’s problem .
Instead it aims at empowering the individual to learn to solve his/her own problems.

5. GOALS OF COUNSELLING Develop better self understanding.
MAKING INDIVIDUALS:-
Develop better self understanding.
Become more self accepting.
Become more self directed.

6. Counselling is a more intensive form of guidance which helps individuals to move from
Dissatisfaction to Satifaction
Pain to Comfort
Low self-esteem to High self-esteem
Low social skills to High social skills
Counselling is thus dealing with one’s emotion and experiences as well.
It must aim at making the individual more competent and contended with his/ her life situation.