Understanding counselling and psychotherapy: Consider systematic and sociocultural issues in a counselling case study

Considering Sociocultural Issues in Counselling (name (subject (University (date

Introduction

Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty a client is having distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life , or lose of a sense of direction or purpose . It is always at the request of the client as no one can properly be 'sent ' for counselling

-BACP , What is Counselling (as qtd in Sutton and Stewart , 2002

Counselling is the responsibility of helping people find solutions to

br their problems . Although this may seem like a simple task , the process of identifying and assessing the problem to actually solving it is a gargantuan task that entails a lot of work and patience . However , this task is alleviated with the fact that counsellors are not alone in evaluating and helping people overcome their difficulties . The body of work concerning counselling is rich and growing , presenting the counsellor with numerous strategies , processes and framework which help guide them approach different problems . These provide the process of counselling a plan or objective , basing the process on an observable and sound approach rather than just whims , hunches and subjectivity (Manthei , 1997

The objective of counselling is to strengthen the client 's self-awareness and insights to be able to utilize these in creating a guide which will help him in life (Stewart , 1983 . Although the ideal objective would be to provide the client with solutions to his problems Stewart reminds the...