DIASS WEEK 2

Goals of Counseling
1. Development Goals – assist in meeting or advancing the clients human growth and development including social,
personal, emotional, cognitive, and physical wellness.
2. Preventive Goals – helps the client avoid some undesired outcome.
3. Enhancement Goals- enhance special skills and abilities.
4. Remedial Goals – assisting a client to overcome and treat an undesirable development
5. Exploratory Goals- examining options, testing of skills, trying new and different activities, etc.
6. Reinforcement Goals- helps client in recognizing, that what they are doing, thinking, and feeling is fine
7. Cognitive Goals-involves acquiring the basic foundation of learning and cognitive skills
8. Physiological Goals – involves acquiring the basic understanding and habits for good health
9. Psychological Goals – aids in developing good social interaction skills, learning emotional control, and developing
positive self–concept.

Goal Description

Insight Understanding of the origins and development of emotional difficulties , leading to an increased
capacity to take rational control over feelings and actions
Relating with Becoming better able to form and maintain meaningful and satisfying relationships with other
others people : for example , within the family or workplace
Self- Becoming more aware of thoughts and feelings that had been blocked off or denied, or developing a
awareness more accurate sense of how the self is perceived by others
Self- The development of a positive attitude toward self, marked by an ability to acknowledge areas of
acceptance experience that had been the subject of self- criticism and rejection
Self – Moving in the direction of fulfilling potential or achieving an integration of previously conflicting
actualization parts of self.
Enlightenment Assisting the client to arrive at a higher state of spiritual awakening

Problem- Finding a solution to a specific problem that the client had not been able to resolve alone. Acquiring
Solving a general competence in problem – solving
Psychological Enabling the client to acquire ideas and techniques with which to understand and control behavior
education
Acquisition of Learning and mastering social and interpersonal skills such as maintenance of eye contact , turn
Social Skills taking in conversations, assertive, or anger control
Cognitive The modification or replacement of irrational beliefs or mal adaptive thought patterns associated
change with self- destructive behavior
Behavior The modification or replacement of maladaptive or self- destructive patterns of behavior.
change
Systematic Introducing change into the way in that social systems operate
change
Working on skills , awareness, and knowledge that will enable to client to take control of his or her
Empowerment
own life
Restitution Helping the client to make amends for previous destructive behavior
Inspiring in the person a desire and capacity to care for others and pass on knowledge and to
Generality
contribute to the collective good through political engagement

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 are within their scope of
practice, which does not include supervision of the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
Ethical Principles of counseling which are follows:
These are the ideas that underpin both personal and 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
1. Principle of Non maleficence
Ethical  This refers to instruction to all helpers or healers that they must ,above all, do no harm;
Principles  Beneficence refers to the order to promote human welfare
1. Principle of Justice
 Concerned with the fair distribution of resources and services , unless there is some
acceptable reason for treating them differently
 For counseling , the principle has particular relevance to the question access

 The BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice , drawing on virtues perspective also
General Moral
identified a set of personal qualities that all practitioners should possess: empathy,
Theories
sincerity, integrity, resilience, respect, humility, competence, fairness, wisdom and courage