A Comprehensive Guide to the Counselling Process: Key Steps Explored

This presentation provides a step-by-step guide to the counselling process. It begins with the initial encounter, emphasizing the importance of making the client comfortable. The presentation highlights active listening as a crucial step, focusing on both verbal and non-verbal communication. Interpretation involves identifying the real problem and redefining it from a different perspective. Repeating and summarizing are used to ensure the client understands the information. Structuring and deciding on an action plan helps prioritize facts and feelings, leading to the conclusion of counselling. The presentation references several key works in the field to support its explanation of each stage.

The process of counselling
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Step 1: Introduction
 The first step is the first
encounter
 The entire process is decided
by the counselor on basis of
this
 Take the client feel
comfortable (Sue et al., 2019).

Step 2: Active attending or listening
 The most important step of
the entire process
 Attention to both verbal
and non-verbal
communication
 listening and observing the
client (Savickas, 2015).

Step 3: Interpretation
 The real problem is identified
 Expressed by the client
understood by the counselor
 The counselor redefines the
problem from a different
perspective (Topornycky &
Golparian, 2016).

Step 4: Repeating
 Essential part of the process
 Helps in ensuring the client is aware of the information
provided to him
 Highlights the salient points of the session (Geldard,
Geldard & Foo, 2017).

Step 5: Summarizing
 Method of reconfirming the information
 Ensure the counselor has understood the client correctly
 Ensure client has understood the counselor's perspective
and information (Pearce, 2014).

Step 6: Structuring and deciding on action
plan
 Relationship between facts
and feeling
 Priority is determined
 Action plan is developed
 Counseling is concluded
(Collins & Collins, 2016).

References
Collins, L., & Collins, D. (2016). Professional judgement and decision-making in the planning
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and Outdoor Learning, 16(3), 256-268.
Geldard, D., Geldard, K., & Foo, R. Y. (2017). Basic personal counselling: A training manual for
counsellors. Cengage AU.
Pearce, B. (2014). Counselling skills in the context of professional and organizational
growth. Handbook of Counselling, 230.
Savickas, M. (2015). Life-design counseling manual (p. 88). Mark L. Savickas.
Sue, D. W., Sue, D., Neville, H. A., & Smith, L. (2019). Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory
and practice. Wiley.
Topornycky, J., & Golparian, S. (2016). Balancing openness and interpretation in active
listening. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 9, 175-184.

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