The presented list of counseling goals,

some of which are enhancement of the

above goals.
Goal Description
Understanding of the
origins and development
of emotional difficulties ,
Insight leading to an increased
capacity to take rational
control over feelings and
actions
Becoming better able to
form and maintain
meaningful and satisfying
Relating with
relationships with other
others
people : for example ,
within the family or
workplace
Self- Becoming more aware of
awareness thoughts and feelings that
had been blocked off or
 denied, or developing a
more accurate sense of
how self is perceived by
others.
The development of a
positive attitude toward
self, marked by an ability
Self-
to acknowledge areas of
acceptance
experience that had been
the subject of self-
criticism and rejection
Moving in the direction
of fulfilling potential or
Self –
achieving an integration
actualization
of previously conflicting
parts of self.
Assisting the client to
Enlightenmen
arrive at a higher state of
t
spiritual awakening
Problem- Finding a solution to a
Solving specific problem that the
client had not been able
 to resolve alone.
Acquiring a general
competence in problem –
solving
Enabling the client to
acquire ideas and
Psychological
techniques with which to
education
understand and control
behavior
Learning and mastering
social and interpersonal
skills such as
Acquisition of
maintenance of eye
Social Skills
contact , turn taking in
conversations, assertive,
or anger control
The modification or
replacement of irrational
Cognitive beliefs or mal adaptive
change thought patterns
associated with self-
destructive behavior
 The modification or
replacement of
Behavior
maladaptive or self-
change
destructive patterns of
behavior.
Introducing change into
Systematic
the way in that social
change
systems operate
Working on skills ,
awareness, and
knowledge that will
Empowerment
enable to client to take
control of his or her own
life
Helping the client to
make amends for
Restitution
previous destructive
behavior
Generality Inspiring in the person a
desire and capacity to
care for others and pass
on knowledge and to
 contribute to the
collective good through
political engagement

The Scope of Counseling

The wide ranges of human problems
create a widened scope and field of
counseling. Broadly, the scope of
counseling includes individual counseling,
marital and premarital counseling, family
counseling, and community counseling. A
more focused subject matter related to
scope of counseling is the 4757-15 Scope
of Practice foe Licensed Professional
Counselors. It contains the rights and
responsibilities of licensed counselors
including the following:
Licensed Professional Counselors may for a fee, salary, or other considerations
1. Afford counseling services to individuals, groups, organizations, or the general public
compromising of: application of clinical counseling principles, methods, or procedures to
assist individuals in realizing effective personal, social, educational, or career
development and adjustment.
2. “apply clinical counseling principles, methods, and procedures “, means an approach to
counseling that emphasizes the counselor’s role in systematically assisting clients through
all of the following: assessing and analyzing emotional conditions, exploring possible
solutions, and developing and providing treatment plan for mental and emotional
adjustment or development. It may include counseling, appraisal, consulting, supervision,
administration, and referral.
3. Engage in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders when under the
supervision of a professional clinical counselor, psychologist, psychiatrists, independent
marriage and family therapist, or independent social worker.
4. Provide training supervision for students and registered counselor trainees when services
 Source: http:codes.ohio.gov/oac/4757-15
The Core Values of Counseling
Core Values- is a key component of
an organization. It has significant
influence on other organizational
components, more specifically, to its
members. It serves as standards that shape
the member’s behavior in their interaction
with their clients and other people.

According to Mcleod (2003), the

founders of humanistic psychology,
including Maslows and Rogers,
highlighted the importance of values.
Ethical Principles of counseling which are
follows:

Ethical These are the ideas that

Principle underpin both personal and
s professional codes.
1. Autonomy of
individuals
 Is based on
the right to freedom of
action and freedom of
choice in so far as the
pursuit of these freedom
does not interfere with
the freedom of others;
counseling cannot
happen unless the client
has made a free choice
to participate
2. Principle of
Non maleficence
 This refers to
instruction to all helpers
 or healers that they must,
above all, do no harm;
3. Principle of
Justice
 Concerned
with the fair distribution
of resources and
services, unless there is
some acceptable reason
for treating them
differently
 The BACP
Ethical Framework for Good
Practice , drawing on virtues
perspective also identified a
General set of personal qualities that
Moral all practitioners should
Theories possess: empathy, sincerity,
integrity, resilience, respect,
humility, competence,
fairness, wisdom and
courage
REVISED KNOWLEDGE:

1. What are the goals, scopes, and

core values of counseling?

The goals of counseling are Insight,

relating with others, Self- awareness, Self-
acceptance, Self – actualization,
Enlightenment, Problem- Solving,
Psychological education, Acquisition of
Social Skills, Cognitive change, Behavior
change, Systematic change,
Empowerment, Restitution, Generality.
Generally, the scope of counseling
includes individual counseling, marital and