INTRODUCTION COUNSELLING TECHNIQUES/SKILLS

INTRODUCTION COUNSELLING TECHNIQUES/SKILLS

In counseling session, a counsellor uses techniques and
skills to assist counsellees to search their thoughts or clarify
their future aspirations. In counselling interaction with
counsellee, a counsellor utilizes a lot of techniques/skills to
encourage the counsellee to continue the talk as well as
open up intensively, freely and explore certain issues in a
deeper way. A counsellor also uses techniques/skills during
interview to ensure his assistant to a counsellee to enable
him/her come out of his problems. The counsellor also uses
techniques/skills to enable him gather vital information or
data about his counsellee to enable him probe deeply into
the counsellees problems so as to know how to render
assistance concerning the problem.
As techniques/skills can bring about behaviour change
during interaction of a counsellor with counsellee, it is
necessary to use techniques/skills to help the counsellees to
cope with adjustment problem to the environment and other
ones generally in life.
The process of counselling is as old as man on earth. Being
a helping process, it cannot be generally overlooked. This is
because all human beings at one