Essay On Counseling

Everyone needs counseling. In an ideal world of a healthy, well-connected community, this need is met by the family structure, and then a support group of friends and colleagues. But due to growing individualism, this ideal community has been harder and harder to achieve. Parent and child may experience a generation gap and have conflicting set of values. Friends may have differences and colleagues may be competitive or otherwise. Or, a person may have all these healthy relationships but they are having their own issues. Counseling is a lent strength and external point of view that could set the person back to his or own track.
People needing counseling can be treated like people feeling some pain in their body and they don't know how to be relieved from it. So the key to the Developmental track of counseling is finding the source of pain and what is causing it, once found, the track to Wellness can be traced. The Wellness model is a good mental health to keep one independent and mindful of their own goals, and an intact emotional health, enough to lend strength and support their own community.
The Developmental track of counseling could be swift, - a person may just need someone to open up to, - or slow and tedious (SCP, 2015). The key is patience and understanding. Once the issue is mapped Prevention can be advised, a person to avoid, an activity to refrain from, a routine to establish, or maybe as drastic as a new career to pursue. The goal of the counseling is to help the person to stand on their own again, healthy enough to figure out things for themselves. This is Empowerment. It involves bringing the person's self-confidence back, emphasizing their strength, finding key people in their life to give the right support, and/or showing that the solution to their issues is doable.
Everybody needs someone now and then to share their journey, troubles, and even triumphs. And this is the joy of counseling

Reference

Society of Counseling Psychology: American Psychological Association Division 17. (2015). What is Counseling Psychology. Retrieved from http://www.div17.org/about-cp/what-is-counseling-psychology/