PRINCIPLES OF

COUNSELING
REVIEW
What are the core values
that a counselor should
possess?
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1. What transpires you to have
these principles?
2. How do these principles affect
your life as a student?
PRINCIPLES OF COUNSELING
 Advice
 Reassurance
 Release of emotional tension
 Clarified thinking
 Reorientation
 Listening skills
 Respect
 Empathy and positive regard
 Clarification, confrontation and interpretation
 Transference and countertransference
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ADVICE

- a counselor makes judgments about a

counselee’s problems and lays out options
for a course of action.
- advice-giving has to avoid breeding a
relationship in which the counselee feels
inferior and emotionally dependent on the
counselor.
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REASSURANCE

- a way of giving them courage to face a

problem or confidence that they are
pursuing a suitable course of action.
- a valuable principle because it can
bring about a sense of relief that may
empower a client to function normally
again.
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 RELEASE OF EMOTIONAL TENSION
- counseling provides clients the opportunity
to get emotional release from their pent-up
frustrations and other personal issues.
- as persons begin to explain their concerns to
a sympathetic listener, their tensions begin to
subside.
- the release of tensions helps remove mental
blocks by providing a solution to the problem
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CLARIFIED THINKING
- tends to take place while counselor
and counselee are talking and therefore
becomes a logical emotional release.
- encourages a client to accept
responsibility for problems and to be
more realistic in solving them.
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 REORIENTATION

- it involves a change in the client’s

emotional self through a change in basic goals
and aspirations.
- this requires a revision of the client’s level
of aspiration to bring it more in line with actual
and realistic attainment.
- enables clients to recognize and accept
their own limitations.
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 LISTENING SKILLS
- listening attentively to clients is the
counselor’s attempt to understand both the
content of the clients’ problem as they see it,
and the emotions they are experiencing related
to the problem.
- counselors do not make interpretations of
the client’s problems or offer any premature
suggestions as to how to deal with them, or solve
the issues presented.
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 RESPECT

- in all circumstances, clients must be

treated with respect, no matter how
peculiar, strange, disturbed, weird or utterly
different from the counselor.
- counselors do not have to like the
client, or their values, or their behavior, but
they have to put their personal feelings
aside and treat the client with respect.
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EMPATHY & POSITIVE REGARD
- empathy requires the counselor to
listen and understand the feelings and
perspective of the client and positive
regard is an aspect of respect.
- Carl Rogers combined empathy and
positive regard as two principles that
should go along with respect and listening
skills.
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 CLARIFICATION, CONFRONTATION &
INTERPRETATION
- Clarification is an attempt by the
counselor to restate what the client is either
saying or feeling, so the client may learn
something or understand the issue better.
- confrontation and interpretation are
other more advanced principles used by
counselors in their interventions.
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 TRANSFERENCE & COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
- when clients are helped to understand
transference reactions, they are empowered to
gain understanding of important aspects of
their emotional life.
- countertransference helps both clients and
counselors to understand the emotional and
perceptional reactions and how to effectively
manage them.
Which among the counseling
principles do you agree most?
Why?
Do you think that all these
principles are necessary in
counseling? Why or why not?
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ASSIGNMENT
Write an essay elucidating
how the principles of
counseling can be applied to
daily dealings.