Reviewer in Diass
Reviewer in Diass
Reviewer in Diass
CAREER ASSISTANCE
- Counselors are called on to provide
career planning and adjustment
assistance to client
COMPETENCIES OF COUNSELORS PERSONAL SOUNDNESS
● INTRAPERSONAL SKILLS - Counselors must have no irrational
● PERSONAL BELIEFS AND beliefs that are destructive to
ATTITUDES counseling relationships,
● CONCEPTUAL ABILITY - self-confidence,
● PERSONAL SOUNDNESS - capacity to tolerate strong or
● MASTERY OF TECHNIQUES uncomfortable feelings in relation to
● ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND AND clients,
WORK WITH SOCIAL SYSTEMS - secure personal boundaries,
● OPENNESS TO LEARNING AND - ability to be a client;
INQUIRY - must carry no social prejudice,
ethnocentrism, and authoritarianism
INTRAPERSONAL SKILLS
- Counselors who are competent MASTERY OF TECHNIQUES
display the - Counselors must have a knowledge
- ability to listen; - when and how to carry out
- Communicate; specific interventions,
- Emphasize; - ability to assess effectiveness
- be present; of interventions,
- aware of nonverbal - understanding of rationale
communication; behind techniques,
- sensitive to voice quality, - possession of sufficiently wide
- responsive to expression of repertoire of interventions.
emotion,
- turn taking, ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND AND
- structure of time and WORK WITHIN SOCIAL SYSTEMS
- use of language - This would comprise of
awareness of family and work
PERSONAL BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES relationships of the client,
- COUNSELORS HAVE THE - the impact of agency on the
CAPACITY to clients, the capacity to use
- accept others support networks and
- Belief in potential for change supervision;
- Awareness of ethical and - sensitivity to client from a
moral choices different gender, enthinicity,
- And sensitive to values held sexual orientation, or age
by client and self group.