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Guidance and Counselling is one of the important courses that keep on growing
across the country. According to Autumn (2013), counselling is a process where, by talking
to a professional about how youre feeling, you can work out, or try to change, the things that
cause you distress. Another definition was given by John Staffold (2009) where he stated
that "guidance and counselling is a concept of helping individuals discover and develop their
psychological, educational, and vocational potentialities, to achieve an optimal level of
personal happiness and social usefulness. It is essentially democratic in that each individual
has the right to shape her own destiny".
In addition, Steven (2014) mentioned that counselling is a helping approach that
highlights the emotional and intellectual experience of a client, how a client is feeling and
what they think about the problem they have sought help for. Another opinion by Pesce
(2007) stated that counselling is a form of psychological or talking therapy in which a
counsellor helps another person to change how they feel or helps them to work through
emotional, behavioural problem based on the few definitions of counselling above, I believe
that counselling aims to help us deal and overcome issues that are causing pain, stress, or
making us feel uncomfortable. Counselling can provide a safe and regular space for clients
to talk and explore difficult feelings. The counsellors job is to support clients and respect
their views. They will not usually give the clients advice, but will help them to find their own
insight and understanding of their problems.
In this assignment, I need to discuss and analyse the article entitled Innovations in
Career Counselling (Lee and Johnston, 2001). In this article, the main highlight being given
to the Personal Career Theory (Holland, 1997) which is closely related to the Client-Centred
Theory. Thus, using the understanding of the concept of guidance and counselling and the
relation with Client-Centred Theory, I will analyse and discuss the Personal Career Theory.
By using this theory, one can easily diagnose the problem that client might have. By
interviewing the client, one will most probably know what the client really feel that made him
had no interest to participate in the activity or doing the job properly. By sharing his problems
to the counsellor, the client can express his emotions that he has kept for a long time. As a
counsellor, one can ask him open-ended questions, use paraphrasing and reflections to elicit
response and explore his true feelings.
Apart from that, this model also emphasises on the conditions states that there must
be some sort of genuineness from the counsellor to the client. This means that the
counsellor cannot simply say the right things or act their way through the relationship. As a
counsellor, one should even discuss about his own feelings if they were in the client shoes if
that seems to be genuine enough to him. Through the counselling session, one will also
make the client think about the consequences of his decisions. The counsellor will make him
realise that the wrong decisions would not give any benefits to him in the future and in fact
causes harm to him.
hard work and success. Thus, it can be concluded that Client-Centred Theory is suitable to
be used in Malaysian context.
Conclusion
To sum up, the benefits of counselling include a greater degree of self-awareness
and understanding of oneself and others. This improves self-esteem, and becomes reflective
in the personal relationships. Through counselling, people will feel better about themselves
and who they are. In counselling, people were reminded that they have their own direction,
goals, confidence and they are able to achieve it. Counselling does not have to be
something to be ashamed of but rather be proud of because it shows how people want to
lead a happy life. Besides, counselling improves one self-knowledge, well-being health, and
clarity of mind. In term of teaching and learning, teachers or counsellors at school often let
small misbehaviours go, waiting to address them until theyve escalated and are much more
difficult to reverse. As a teacher, one need to realize the need to equip with more counselling
and guidance skills and theories are very useful in dealing problems faced by pupils at
school. As a conclusion, guidance and counselling will make us feel more inspired,
motivated, and organized.
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