Self development of the counselor.docx

CHAPTER 2:- SELF DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNSELOR – NEED, HOW AND WHY

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Need For Counseling:

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o To empower the organization.o

o o To express management’s concern.o

o o To uplift the spirit.o

o o To empower individual.o o

o To inspire the spirit.o o

o To build a team. o

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o To spread competence.2

Counseling is vast field and its area of specialization are :

Parental./ child./old age.

Educational stress.

Personality development.

Industrial/Organisational.

Community.

Marriage.

Career.

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Factors responsible for counseling.

1. Conflict.

2. Frustration.

3.Stress.

4.Moral & Philosophical issues.

5.Economic changes and challenges.

6.Educational aspects.

7.Psychotherapy.

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8.Social theories.

Conditions for counseling:

1. General climate of openness and mutuality.

2. General helpful & empathic attitude of management.

3. Sense of uninhibited participation by the subordinates in the performance review process.

4. Dialogic relationship in goal setting & performance review.

5. Focus on work related problems& difficulties.

6. Avoidance of discussion of benefits & rewards.

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Major role of counselor:

1. To prevent emotional tensions, anxieties and indecisions.

2. Resolution of problems.

3. Improving personal effectiveness.

4. Help in introducing change.

5. Assisting in decision making.

6. Modification of behavior.

7. Assemble & examine information.6

8. To provide information to counselees.

9. To provide info about counselees social environment.

10. Conversation of counselor with others.

11.To assemble normative data.

12.Maximise individual freedom to change.

13.Improving personal effectiveness.

14. To help individuals to act upon counselors choice.

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The goal of counseling is to help individuals overcome their immediate problems and equip them to meet future problems by understanding their behavior, motivations and feelings.

We have come to a conclusion that different areas of counseling need different types of counseling and hence we are concern with the counseling of human beings.

HR manager as counselor you need development in SENSITIVITY, EMPATHY and BEHAVIOUR.

SENSITIVITY:

Sensitivity Training is a form of training that claims to make people more aware of their own prejudices, and more sensitive to others. It involves the use of psychological techniques with groups that are often identical to

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brainwashing tactics. Critics believe these techniques are unethical.

The nature of modern Sensitivity Training appears to be in some dispute. Its modern critics portray its origins and function in negative terms. Others view the approach as benignly beneficial in many of its historical and contemporary implantations.

Meanwhile, Training Groups or T-Groups were being developed at the National Training Labs, now part of the National Education Association. Over time the techniques of T-Groups and Encounter Groups have merged and divided and splintered into specialized topics, seeking to promote sensitivity to others perceived as different and seemingly losing some of their original focus on self-exploration as a means to understanding and improving relations with others in a more general sense.

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EMPATHY:

Empathizing, or feeling what someone else is feeling, is a matter of using your imagination or past to inhabit another person's experience. Empathy is not something you either have or you don't; being placed in circumstances where you are required to produce some evidence of empathy can cultivate your capacity for it. Mental health professionals, as well as individuals who regularly deal with people, use empathy training as a way of building interpersonal skills.

BEHAVIOURAL:

Human behavior is influenced by Personality & Situation.

The interaction between personality & situation is behavior.

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How one perceives a situation is a critical factor of behavior.

OTHER ATTRIBUTES:

1.Degree to which people believe in control of their fate.

2.Self esteem.

3.Self Awareness. Traits/ feelings.

4.Risk takings.

WHILE DEALING WITH PEOPLE LOSE

YOUR SPECTACLE AND PUT ON

THEIR GLASSES THEN TRY TO

UNDERSTAND FIRST BEFORE BEING

UNDERSTOOD.

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ETHICS IN COUNSELLING:

1. Respect the Autonomy of client

2. Benefit to client.

3. Avoiding harm.

4.Justice.

5.Fidelity.

QUALITIES OF GOOD COUNSELOR:

1.Assertiveness in Responding.

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2. Empathetical Listening.

3. Getting prepared by doing work.

4.Stay cool & Patient.

5.Little talking with appropriation.

6.Crediblity.

7.Judgment.

8.Attacking the Problem not the person.

9.Encouranging others to speak.

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10.Counselling privately and confidentially.

11.Never renege.

12.Collaborative.

13.Guiding towards W/W solution.

14.Creating a atmosphere for future and

continues relationship.

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