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Discuss main elements of counselling.

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Ans.     The following elements about counselling are common to the major theoretical approaches to counselling:

1. Counselling involves responding to the feeling, thoughts and actions of the clients.

2. Counselling involves a basic acceptance of the client’s perception unconditional of positive regard and feelings without using any evaluative standards.

3. Confidentiality and privacy constitute essential ingredients—in the counselling setting.

4. Counselling is voluntary. It takes place when the client approaches a counsellor. A counsellor never uses any kind of coercion for obtaining information.

5. Counselling is an interactive process. Counsellor and clients both transmit and receive verbal and non-verbal messages during the process. Therefore awareness and sensitivity to the nature of the message is an important prerequisite for the counsellor’s effectiveness.