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The process of guiding a person during a stage of life when reassessments or decisions have to be made about himself or herself and his or her life course.”
Counseling
Subfield of psychology concerned with the development, administration, and interpretation of quantitative tests used to assess psychological variables such as intelligence, aptitude, interests, and personality traits.
Psychometrics
Core Values of Counseling, the counselor must provide unconditional positive regard, compassion, a nonjudgmental attitude, empathy, and trust to the client.
Respect for human dignity
This entails accepting and respecting the diversity of clients, as well as individuals' cultures, languages, lifestyles, identities, ideologies, intellectual capacities, personalities, and capabilities, regardless of the issues presented.
Social justice
Counseling Principles: a way of giving the client the courage to face a problem or confidence
Reassurance
Counseling provides a client to get an emotional release from their pent-up frustrations and other personal issues.
Release of emotional tension
The counselor's attempt to understand both the content of the client's problem as they see it and the emotions.
Listening Skills
Requires the counselor to listen and understand the feelings and perspective of the client by putting their own shoes on the situation of the client.
Empathy
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.
Clarification
A process by which the feelings that you had for someone when you were a child become directed to the counselor.
Transference
The complex of feelings of a counselor towards the client. This happens when a counselor's past feelings towards a person are directed to the client.
Countertransference
