an interaction with a mental health professional who offers guidance and advice on matters of education, marriage, work, relationships.
A term used to describe several processes of interviewing, testing, guiding, advising, etc, designed to help a person solve problems and make positive plans for the future.
Even the friendliest divorce can be a very emotional and stressful experience. To better cope with the pressure, you may want to consider seeing a professional counselor. Therapists can provide invaluable support with understanding, resolving, and coping with the emotional issues surrounding your divorce.
Counselling encompasses a broad set of approaches and goals that are essentially aimed at helping an individual with problem solving - solving long-standing problems in the family or at work; or solving sudden major problems.
A therapy in which a trained person listens to our problems and anxieties, and advises without judging, to help us find our own answers.
something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
aims to enable someone to cope better with stress, find realistic ways to solve problems and make informed decisions. Counselling is different from giving advice. Counselling is about enabling people to decide for themselves how to solve their problems. Giving advice is about suggesting how they might solve their problems. Counselling involves listening, learning, sharing and caring.
HIV/AIDS counselling is a dialogue between a client and a care provider aimed at enabling the client to cope with stress and take personal decisions relating to HIV/AIDS. The counselling process includes the evaluation of personal risk of HIV transmission and the facilitation of preventive behaviour
Couples seeking fertility sometimes require emotional support to help them through what can be a difficult time. A counsellor will help couples to understand the implications of treatment and its consequences.
Counselling is a talking therapy that usually deals with a recent distressing event.The length of time that counselling is needed varies from person to person.
All licensed clinics are required to offer patients counselling. Such counselling aims to enable the patient to understand the implications of treatment, to give emotional support and to help the patient cope with the consequences of treatment.
refers to a wide range of processes designed to assist people to solve personal and interpersonal issues and problems. Counselling has a specific meaning under the Family Law Act, where it is included as a Primary Dispute Resolution process (see PDR).
as defined by Steadman’s Medical Dictionary, is “a professional relationship and activity in which one person endeavors to help another to understand and to solve his or her adjustment problems; the giving of advice, opinion and instruction to direct the judgment or conduct of another.” It is, then, a broader term than psychotherapy, which can be thought of as a form of counseling used as a treatment for mental disorders.
a client-centred interactive communication process in which one person helps another to make free, informed decisions about their personal behaviour, providing support in decision-making and action.
information, advice and support. The latter may include therapy.
the provision of personal and emotional support to learners.
The gift of counselling is the special ability God gives to certain members of the body of Christ to minister words of comfort, consolation, encouragement & counsel to other members of the body in such a way that they feel helped and healed. (see Romans 12:8, 1 Timothy 4:13, Heb. 100:25, Acts 14:22)
Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having, distress they may be experiencing or dissatisfaction with their life, or loss of a sense of direction and purpose. By listening attentively and patiently the counsellor can begin to perceive the difficulties from the client's point of view and can help them to see things more clearly, possibly from a different perspective. Counselling is a way of enabling choice or change or of reducing confusion. It does not involve giving advice or directing a client to take a particular course of action. Counsellors do not judge or exploit their clients. In the counselling sessions the client can explore various aspects of their life and feelings, talking about them freely and openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends or family. The counsellor will encourage the expression of feelings and as a result of their training will be able to accept and reflect the client's problems without becoming burdened by them. Use the Natural Health Directory to find a Counselling Practioner
Where a person is helped to have a new understanding about things that have, or may be likely to happen to them, by talking them through with another person
A form of nonjudgmental interpersonal communication for education and advice. During family planning counselling, the health worker and the client discuss the client's needs and concerns related to specific contraceptives or to the client's individual health and life situation that may affect use of a contraceptive method.
The opportunity to talk things over with a trained counsellor, who can offer new ideas for coping.
The art of listening to people and assisting them to deal with their problems by weighing options and consideration of the factors acting in that situation. Counselling can be performed through the telephone or face to face.
Counselling is a process where clients are helped in dealing with their personal and interpersonal conflicts by a third party therapist.
The opportunity to talk things through with a trained counsellor. This can help you make sense of your feelings and offer you encouragement. It does not tell you what to do, but can offer new or different ideas for coping.
Advising or giving Counsel to.
An opportunity to talk things over with a trained counsellor. This can help make sense of feelings and offer encouragement. Counselling doesn't involve telling you what to do, but can offer new ideas for coping.
Sessions with a Mental Health Service Provider for help dealing with personal, social or psychological problems or difficulties related to residential school abuse.
It is a process involving two persons: the first is asking for help while the other, who is adequately formed to do the listening, is able to provide support. The counselling foresees an intervention not on the problem itself, but on the person, helping him/her to use his/her resources.
Counselling is guided discussion with an independent trained person, to help you find your own answers to a problem or issue.
