Question

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Role of a counselor is dealing with individuals. 

Answer 1

Counseling is an interactive process conjoin-ing the counselee, who needs assistance and the counselor, who is trained and educated to give assistance.
Role of counselor in dealing with indivi-duals :
Counseling deals with wellness, personal growth, career and pathological concerns. In other words, counselors work in area that involve relationships.

Counseling meets the requirement of a wide spectrum of people. Clients have developmental or situational concerns that require help in regard to adjustment or remediation.

Counseling is intended to help individuals to realize their potentials and to make optimum contributions to the growth of society.

Counseling aims at providing assistance to teachers in their efforts to understand their students.

Counseling aims at developing in student’s qualities such as perseverance, dedication, sincerity, devotion, positive outlook, respect for views of others.

Currently, counseling is also successful to rehabilitate criminals and prevent criminal tendencies and delinquency if detected early. Vocational counseling is provided to criminals to rehabilitate them.

The common areas of counseling are as follows:

Child counseling:
Counseling dealing with different problems of a child, such as learning difficulties, temper tantrums, conduct problems, lack of concentration, inadequacy in cognitive, perceptual or social development, emotional disturbances and child abuse.

Parental or family counseling:
The main aim is to resolve the problematic issues pertinent in the family of the client. Parental counseling is an extended part of child counseling. It helps to improve parent-child relationship.

Academic and school counseling:
This deals with school children regarding their academic difficulties, relational problems with teachers, classmates, career issues and personal problems.

Workplace counseling:
It aims to assist both the employer and the employee by intervening with an active problem-solving approach. It helps in increasing productivity of an organization.

Couple counseling:
This helps couples of any type to realize and resolve their conflicts and improves their relationship. It enables the couples either to make thoughtful decisions about rebuilding the relationship or getting separated.

Group counseling:
People suffering from the same or similar problems get together and share their problems and coping mechanism that they use. They sense a feeling of having a support system. Popular group therapies are seen in the form of alcoholic anonymous, or support group for cancer patients.

Geriatric counseling:
This helps to manage problems arising in and from old-age.

Counseling of delinquents:
Counseling the delinquents involve addressing the emotional, behavioural and personality issues of the delinquents.

Career counseling:
This helps the individual in their decision for the right choice of career or vocational course.

Sports counseling:
This area is mainly concerned with the physical health, mental functioning and performance of a sports person.

Counseling for mental health issues:
Counseling is also used to treat and alleviate mental disorders, adjustment problems and emotional disturbances.