Introduction to Guidance and Counselling

INTRODUCTION TO
GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELLING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Discussion and elaboration of the counselling stages in context to the mental health
promotion ..............................................................................................................................3
Explanation of simulation which counsellor need to do to illustrate the first and second stage
of the counselling ..................................................................................................................5
FIVE attributes of an effective counsellor and its importance in counselling process. .......7
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Counselling broadly know as the process understanding the peoples problems and
giving them advice to get over come from this (Hilliard, Redmond, and Watson, 2019). This
process is use by the counselling professional in their respective profession such as the health
care counsellor, physical health counsellor, mental health consular and career counsellor. In
health care, such in mental health care profession, professional conduct this Counselling process
in prospect to educate, guide and advice the patient about health care personal and medical
intervention through which patient can get help to manage their situation. But counsellor can not
force them to go with specific intervention. they can just give choice for the better management
of patient situation but this depended on the patient to selection for the particular health
management intervention. Along with the guidance another function of counsellor is to motivate
the support the patient for cure and improvement of their situation. In mental health promotion
counselling counsellor and client are the key elements of this process (Fullen, Lawson,and
Sharma, J., 2020). This process of counselling is divided in to different stages. In this report
different stages of counselling is going to be consider along with the, analysis of simulations
which should be illustrate by the counsellor, then five attributes of effective counsellor along
with its importance in Counselling session is going to be discuss on this report.
Discussion and elaboration of the counselling stages in context to the mental health promotion
As it is clear that counselling is the processes of understanding and suggesting the
solution for client. This process is accomplish between the professional and counsellor where
counsellor have to perform various important function at the different stages of counselling in
order to support the patient to develop the awareness and get the effective solution for
betterment of their mental health and effective management criteria (Davenport, 2017). Mental
health promotion counselling is conduct by the psychiatrist, who take the counselling sessions
of the patient due to their personal metal health issues for which they want the suggestion and
guidelines of the psychiatrist. This counselling theory of of the metal health promotion can help
them to get clear about the techniques and process of managing the negative thinking, feeling
and make the positive changes on self behaviour. Counsellor can help the people to get
overcome from their distresses feeling of difficult events along with the improvement of metal
health problems. There are the five major steps of the mental health theory and counselling such

as relationship building, assessment of the patient problems, setting the goal of improvement,
development of the intervention options and final stage is evaluation and termination of the
intervention effects (Ginicola, Smith, and Filmore, 2017).
Relationship building- This is the initial step of the counselling where counsellor have
to make their patient comfortable, counsellor have to communicate effectively and build the
strong relationship in which patient get comfortable to share all of their personal psychological
issues. Here the counsellor have to effectively engage and influence the patient by his effective
communication and behaviour analysis skill, so that exploration of the patient issues become
easy to manage. This is the stage where counsellor have to build strong relationship with client
by the aid of mutual understanding and effective communication. So that it can be further
proceed with the other stages of counselling.
Problem assessment- This is the second stage of the counselling where counsellor have
to communicate with their client about the problems and thoughts which bother that person and
cause metal stress. This is the stage where deep exploration of the client problem is done by the
brief discussion of the counsellor with client about his problems and issues which is the reasons
of the counselling session. In this stage counsellor have to do brief discussion with the client
and the they have to collect all basic and essential information of client related to their problems,
then next process of process is classification of the information in order to understand the main
causes of client problem and reason of the counselling (Nilsson, Berkel and Chong, 2019).
Goal setting- This is the third step where counsellor have to ask for the client goal and
suggest some goals which has be achieve by the help of this session with in some selective
period of time and process, so that counsellor can further proceed with the other stage where
they can provide the specific interventions choice to their client. In this stage counsellor have to
encourage the client to set his goals and commitment along with outcomes. So here the
counsellor should support for the selection of goals for mental health improvement. Where
counsellor have to ask their client about the changes and objectives which they want to achieve
in context to their problems.
Intervention- This is the fourth step of the process where counsellor have to evaluate
the client problems and develop the effective evidence based interventions for the client.
Through which client can manage this difficult situation and achieve their improvement goals.
This intervention is can be in the form of solution for particular problem, suggestion for