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    5 Goals of Counseling

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    The document outlines 5 goals of counseling: facilitating behavior change, improving relationships, facilitating the client's potential, promoting decision making, and enhancing potential and enriching self development. The goals aim to help clients through challenges, improve relationships, make decisions, and reach their full potential.

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    The document outlines 5 goals of counseling: facilitating behavior change, improving relationships, facilitating the client's potential, promoting decision making, and enhancing potential and enriching self development. The goals aim to help clients through challenges, improve relationships, make decisions, and reach their full potential.

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    5 Goals of Counseling

    1. FACILITATING BEHAVIOR CHANGE

    The goal of counseling is to bring about change in behavior that will enable to the client to be
    more productive. Goals can be measurable so that client can measure that program. According to
    Rogers (1951) behavior change is a necessary result of the counseling process although specific
    behaviors receive little or no emphasis during process.

    2. IMPROVING RELATIONSHIP

    Many clients tend to have major problems relating to others due to poor self- image. Likewise
    inadequate social skills cause individuals to act defensively in relationships. The counselor
    would then strive to help the client improve the quality of their lives by developing more
    effective interpersonal relationships.

    3. FACILITATE CLIENT’S POTENTIAL

    Helping individuals to cope with new situation and challenges. We will inevitably run into
    difficulties in the process of growing up. Most of us do not completely achieve all over our
    development tasks within a life time. All of the unique expectations and requirements imposed
    on us by others will eventually lead to problem learning coping patterns, however may not
    always work.

    4. PROMOTING DECISION MAKING

    The goal of the counseling is to enable the individual to make critical decisions regarding
    alternative courses of actions without outside influence. Counseling will help individuals obtain
    individuals obtain information and to clarify emotional concern that may interfere with or be
    related to the decision involved. These individuals will acquire an understanding of their
    capabilities and interests. They will also come to identifying emotions and attitudes that could
    influence their choice and decisions.

    5. ENHANCE POTENTIAL AND ENRICH SELF DEVELOPMENT

    Help individuals to cope with new situations and challenges. Counseling seek to maximize an
    individual freedom by giving him or her control over their environment while analyzing
    responsiveness and reach to the environment. Counselors will work to help people learn how to
    overcome. Counselors will also assist to overcoming sexual dysfunction, drug addition, gambling
    and obesity as well as anxiety shyness and depression.

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