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- 1. Counselling skills – Qualities of a counsellor Suresh Babu. G Assistant Professor CTE CPAS Paippad, Kottayam
- 2. Counselling skills Counseling is an art and as such like any art it requires certain specific skills if it is to be effective. The basic skills are: (1) Acquainting Skill To acquaint means to make oneself familiar with something. Acquainting involves the skill of building rapport with the counselee who has come with a lot of expectation. The success of establishing an informal workable contract, called as therapeutic alliance, between the counselor and counselee depends on supporting skills such as: (a)Welcoming skill – involves ability of counselor to receive the client warmly.
- 3. (b) Providing Privacy – for speak freely and express emotions. (c) Chit-chat – engaging in some neutral type conversations to ease the fear and anxiety. (d) Confidentiality – keeping information entrusted to the counselor by client, as secret. (e) Invitation to talk – Knack of triggering the client to talk whenever feels some difficulty. (2) Observing Skill – Includes body language, eye movement, breathing, paralinguistic like accent, emphasis, intonation, pause etc…
- 4. (3) Founding Skills – (a) Attending Skill – attending physical, observing, listening. (b) Listening Skill – tone of voice, feeling, word they use, expression, content, imagination etc (d) Reporting Skill – Probing, reflecting etc (4) Diagnosing Skill – Skill to formulate hypotheses, Skill to administer test, Skill of interpreting the scores, Skill of locating problem area, Skill of pinpointing the problem, Skill of facilitating.
- 5. (5) Personalizing Skill – (Go beyond what the client has expressed) Personalizing the meaning, Personalizing the Problem, Personalizing the goal. (6) Reframing Skill – (looking through different framework) Meaning reframing, Context reframing, Skill of stimulate, Skill of expressing, Skill of self- disclosure etc. (7) Initiating Skill – (facilitating development) Skill of defining goal, Skill in helping the client, economy in action etc (8) Evaluating Skill – ongoing evaluation, client- centered evaluation, skill of self-evaluation.
- 10. Qualities of a Good Counselor Magnetic Personality – Highly cultured, social interests, capacity for work, intelligence, broad scope for knowledge and interest, scholastic aptitude, respect for fact, good judgment, etc. are some of the personal qualities that a counselor should possess. Wide range of interest – He should be interested in various types of people, children in his home and school life, activities in which the children are generally interested, working with the people.
- 11. Personal adjustment – The counselor should possess maturity, emotional stability, sense of worth, self-reliance, confidence, flexibility and adaptability. And also have well aware about his strength and limitation. Interpersonal relationship – Should have capacity for being trusted by others, respect for needs of others, tolerance of viewpoints of others than one’s own, and respect for individuals Professional competence – should know his job well, wide knowledge of the world and its ways especially in the field of occupations, well conversant with the techniques of counseling.
- 12. Leadership – ability to stimulate and lead others and should possess dependability. Professional dedication – Vocational interest, professional attitude, sense of mission, loyalty and enthusiasm for the cause of education, dedicated to service in student, strong professional ethics, willing to work etc. Philosophy of life – have civic sense, an acceptable value system, respect for personal autonomy and integrity of the client etc.
- 13. Empathy – the ability to feel and describe the thought and feelings of others. Confidentiality – Keeping the secrecy of information disclosed by the client. Have absolute and relative confidentiality.
- 15. Rapport in counseling • Rapport refers to a relationship of confidence, trust and mutual appreciation between the counselor and counselee in a counseling situation. • Webster’s dictionary defines the term rapport as a harmonious and sympathetic relationship between two individuals.
- 16. Techniques to establish Rapport David and Robinson suggested the following techniques to increase rapport: 1. Sympathy 2. Assurance 3. Approval 4. Humour – attempt to ease tension 5. Personal reference – telling own experience 6. Non- personal reference – telling others experience
- 17. Role of counselor in serving pupils Assisting pupils to know themselves. Help to accept their aptitudes, abilities, interests and opportunities for self-fulfillment. Helping for decision making competency. Giving material information and evaluation to staffs about pupils. Determining impact of school program in pupils. Information for significant changes in school. Assisting parents for understanding developmental need of the pupils. Development and use of community resources.
- 18. Role of the counselor in Guidance Programme Understanding students. Collecting educational and occupational information. Conducting interview. Conferring with parents and teacher. Disseminating information's Arrange orientation talks. Work with community. Liaison with external agencies. Organizing guidance service in school. Providing counseling Co-ordination. Research projects.
- 19. How to become a good counselor