Monday, August 2, 2010

Should counselors develop their own counseling approach or follow an existing one?


I believe that there is no boundary for innovations and so it is in counseling. It is an advantage for counselors to develop their own counseling approach. They must be open for further updates that would be helpful in pursuing the goal of their practice. However, the said approach that will be developed should be in line with the existing philosophical orientations. It must also be scientifically validated. In counseling, what we are talking about here is how to improve lives and it’s unethical to practice this without a concrete foundation of the basics- the science. That it is just a mere formulation of the counselor’s imagination or aspirations which spurred from an ambiguous reference.
Counseling, as co- discipline of education can be either ruin or make lives. So, it is a great responsibility and a challenge for the counseling practitioners to keep abreast on the latest advancement in the study of human behavior specifically in the theoretical principles of counseling. This is in order to ensure the proper delivery of service among their clientele that would somehow contribute an immense help to our society not only today but also for future generations.

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