Learning Journal and Summary of Journal

Running head: LEARNING JOURNAL AND SUMMARY OF JOURNAL
Learning Journal and Summary of Journal
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Reflection on Content:
In today’s world, human beings are often posed with many difficult and confusing
situations. This is especially true because, people now get more options. They now have
options in every walks of life. Among all these options, and among many situations, cropping
up from a single deed, the people are becoming more confused. Also, people are becoming
more vulnerable. With many options, it is often seen that the people are lacking the decision-
making power, which is leading them to worse consequences, and such consequences left
much negative impacts upon the people, and they always try to find somebody who can
provide them with better solutions. From this perspective the discourse of counselling was
started. In this personal journal I will be discussing about the discourse of counselling, its
definition and meaning, the types and other various aspects regarding counselling as a
discourse will be discussed in this journal, and this knowledge of mine is completely based
on the course materials that I have received, while taking the classes for counselling.
The first learning that I got in the course. Is that there is a difference between an
advisor and a professional counsellor. Before starting the course, my understanding of
Counselling as a discourse was that, a counsellor is like an advisor, who seems to know and
understand a lot of things regarding human beings, their life and their behavior, and based on
their study of human beings and situations, they tend to develop the understanding of any
kind of situations, and therefore, can provide effective and useful solutions. Practically, a
counsellor is not just an advisor. The counsellor us the person, who can provide a sound
understanding and a concrete solution to a person’s social and personal problems, and the
solutions will be more practical and professional in approach. Therefore, counselling can be
regarded as a process of assisting and providing the clients, with professional advices, to
resolute their personal, psychological and social problems, confusions, situations and

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difficulties (Geldard, Geldard, & Foo, 2017). Therefore, the basic and imperative
understanding of Counselling is that it is a professional process, it is more practical in
approach, the counselor is to be regarded as a professional person and the people seeking
solutions, are regarded as the clients, thus, a formal and professional relationship is
maintained.
The first thing taught in the course was the characteristics of a counsellor, which are,
 Firstly, being patients, which refers to the fact that a counselor must be patient enough
to learn md know about the situation of the client. The counselor must practice
enough patience in the practice of counselling as it is one of the major aspect of the
process and to know about the client, to understand the client, it is important to be
patient and know about the situation of the client and then incur upon that.
 Secondly, the counselor must also be a very good listener and be very attentive. As, to
know and understand about someone’s circumstances it is important to understand the
situation of the same and to be attentive to every little detail, as that helps in
understanding the client as a person, and also to understand about the thinking process
of the same.
 Thirdly, a counselor has to be very knowledgeable. As the counselors are posed with
different situations and different questions, therefore, the counselor has to be very
knowledgeable so that the person can deal properly with all of the clients and provide
them with proper suggestions.
 Fourthly, a counselor must be very non-judgmental. The person must learn to accept
the differences and not frown upon at the things which he or she does not believe or
does not qualify. A counsellor has to be very flexible and must have an approaching
attitude. He or she must not behave in a such a way so that the clients do not wish to
share or may think that it will be improper to share. A counselor must be very