COUNSELLING

Counselling is a process where clients are helped in dealing with their personal and interpersonal conflicts by a third party therapist.

counselling adolescents is different in the following ways:

• If adolescents are to be encouraged using counselling, we need to offer a special type of client-counsellor relationship which is appropriate for them.
• The process of counselling, an adolescent needs to be different from the processes used when counselling children or adults.
• Particular skills and strategies which enhance the adolescent counselling conversation are required. 

Adolescents are a special group because of their developmental stage and the special problems which this present.  As counsellors, we need to remember that adolescents are neither children nor adults: they are in transition.  As a counsellor of adolescent, we need to deliberately strive to ensure that each of the following fits with that developmental process.

• The adolescent-counsellor relationship
• The counselling skills needed for successful outcomes
• The strategies used to address particular problems.

Supportive one to one counselling

You may just need some ‘one-to-one’ supportive counselling sessions.  This basically means that you need a caring and patient person to talk your worries over with in privacy, knowing that what you say is confidential.  You may have some practical issues that you want help in sorting out.  The counsellors may not use a particular counselling method here.  But they are trained persons who will listen to you, and help you work out some solutions. This can be very helpful.

Group counselling

There is also group counselling, sometimes called ‘group therapy’.  This means joining in a group where everyone discusses their problems together.  Usually, everyone in the group is facing similar problems, but not always.  The counsellor will facilitate the group and encourage people to express their feelings within it.  Some people find it very helpful to learn that they are not alone with their worries.  But this method doesn’t suit everyone, especially if you have some very personal and painful issues you want to discuss.

Micro counselling's skill can be used either in direct response to the needs of the counselling process, or can be used in conjunction with any of the counselling strategies.  The counsellor’s micro skills are

• Observation
• Active listening
• Giving feedback
• Use of questions
• Challenges
• Instruction
• The use of humour

We are also providing counselling services.  You can mail to ahdproject@gmail.com