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What is the importance and value of counseling?
Counseling provided by trained professionals can make a profound impact on the lives of individuals, families and communities. This service helps people navigate difficult life situations, such as the death of a loved one, divorce, natural disasters, school stress and the loss of a job. Counseling is a process that occurs between client and counselor in which clients are facilitated to make decisions and plan their process of behaving, feeling, and thinking to optimize their well-being (Kabir, 2017) . When a counselor allows his or her personal values to muddle the interaction with the client, the client’s autonomy is threatened. The counselor can cause harm to the client by devaluing the client’s personal beliefs and values. Empathy. Being able to understand the client’s problem from their perspective is an essential skill. Empathetic counsellors can quickly help a client overcome their problems. The five bedrock principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and fidelity are each vital in and of themselves to a healthy counseling relationship. By exploring an ethical dilemma with regard to these principles, a counselor may come to a better understanding of the conflicting issues. The Therapeutic Writing Protocol Therapeutic journaling can be done by keeping a regular journal to write about events that bring up anger, grief, anxiety, or joy that occur in daily life. It can also be used more therapeutically to deal with specific upsetting, stressful, or traumatic life events.
What are the values in Counselling?
Values, often called ‘personal values’ in therapy, are universal ideas about what is important in life. They include things like kindness, compassion, and loyalty, as well as things like dishonesty and decadence. Values, often called ‘personal values’ in therapy, are universal ideas about what is important in life. They include things like kindness, compassion, and loyalty, as well as things like dishonesty and decadence. Values clarification therapy aims to reduce emotional distress and increase positive behaviors through reinforcement. It helps those in therapy to identify and clarify the values that influence their decisions and behavior and encourages them to build on their inner resources and strengths. Our values inform our thoughts, words, and actions. Our values are important because they help us to grow and develop. They help us to create the future we want to experience. Every individual and every organization is involved in making hundreds of decisions every day. This chapter describes the six core ethical principles underlying ethical analysis in the profession of counseling. These principles are autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, fidelity and veracity. Research suggests that for emotional well-being, you should treat yourself the way you’d want others to treat you.