Talking with a person in a way that helps that person solve a problem or helps to create conditions that will cause the person to improve his behavior, character, or values The providing of basic, technical, and sometimes professional assistance to employees to help them with personal and work related problems
A process where a person can receive assistance in sorting out issues and reaching decisions appropriate to their life circumstances Counseling for adoption should be done by trained, experienced, adoption counselors Birth parent counseling should include exploration of all options including parenting the child, kinship adoption, foster care and various types of adoptions
Counseling the patient may be part of the therapeutic order or treatment Counseling may occur if the physician (student) feels that the patient needs to know more about the disease, treatment, or medication Counseling could also be recommended for mental health treatments
adj. Professional guidance of the individual by use of standard psychological methods such as collecting case-history data, using various techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and aptitudes. The counselor's goal is generally to orient the individual toward opportunities that can best guarantee fulfillment of his personal needs and aspirations. The counselor usually attempts to clarify the client's own thinking rather than to solve his problems. Professional counselors (such as educational guidance and career counselors) and counseling psychologists (such as marriage and bereavement counselors) are found in a wide variety of institutional settings and in private practice. See also psychotherapy
It is not a covered benefit unless it is performed by a physician as defined in this Booklet In addition, the counseling must be related to the patient being treated for a mental illness and/or functional nervous disorder, drug abuse and alcoholism The counseling must also be performed in a non-group setting, unless the other participants are Family Members, in which case the Fund would still only provide a single individual benefit allowance per session
The utilization of special skills to assist individuals, families or groups in achieving objectives through exploration of a problem and its ramifications; examination of attitudes and feelings; consideration of alternative solutions; and decision-making
A means of assisting and developing students and subordinates A leader/instructor counsels subordinates: to praise and reward good performance, to develop teamwork, to inform students on how well or how poorly they are performing, to assist students to reach required standards, to cause students to set personal and professional goals, and to help students resolve personal problems
a private supervisory conference between a supervisor and a subordinate employee at which the employee's performance deficiencies are discussed The motivation for such counseling sessions is to improve the employee's performance and eliminate the performance deficiencies For more information about counseling go to: Counseling
Activities involved with assisting participants to identify and resolve personal or training situations/problems which are adversely affecting performance
The gift of counseling is the special ability God gives to certain members of the body of Christ to minister words of comfort, consolation, encouragement & counsel to other members of the body in such a way that they feel helped and healed (see Romans 12: 8, 1 Timothy 4: 13, Heb 100: 25, Acts 14: 22)
form of guidance in which a trained person offers advice or education about specific problems in living crisis intervention brief therapeutic approach used to ameliorate acute psychiatric emergencies