Essays on Counseling Psychology

The homosexual community in China faces discrimination and is treated with less respect as compared to the heterosexuals. The older people in China are rigid and refuse to change their negative perceptions towards the homosexuals. The older people perceive homosexuals as being sick and think homosexuals need to seek treatment. The homosexuals experience social stigma and pressure from their families, friends, colleagues, and the community as a whole (Preston 219). The homosexuals, thus, experience problems such as the fear to seek health services due to fear of stigmatization (Feng et al.). The marriage law bill, for the homosexuals, which ...

Introduction

The process of skilled helping is a structured process in which the helper and the helping technique should interact and operate with the subjects to ensure that the resultant help is most effective in its approach. Gerard Egan offered the 3-stage model for aiding the helpers in solving problems and seeking newer opportunities in the field of skilled help or counseling services. The prime objective of the model was to enable people for living more effectively and make more efficient use of most of the available opportunity around them to get the maximum yielding results (Shorrock, 2011). The model ...

Abstract

Counseling psychology defines a specialty in psychology within the professional category that emphasizes on the need to facilitate both personal and interpersonal functioning around the entire life. The specialty borrows concepts from, social, vocational, educational, emotional, health-associated, developmental, and organizational issues. The goals of counseling psychology include a diverse range of closely attached practices that assist persons in improving their welfare, lessen issues, resolve crises and increase the capability of persons to improve their lives. The association of this area of specialization draws more attention from normal development subjects and issues linked with physical, emotional and mental issues. Counseling ...

Counseling is therapeutic to all members of the society. It does not matter what the nature of the counseling is because stressors have taken toll on literary every aspect of life, from the family setup, to careers, marriages, school and even other activities that people involve themselves in as they go about life. It is therefore paramount to take care of people both physically and mentally in an effort to optimize on the positive aspects of life and minimize stressors (Erford 2012). Through counseling, people are able to work through problems regardless of the sources of their problems. Counseling ...

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on the code of ethics of two counseling organizations. These organizations are; the American Counseling Association and the second one the American Association of Christian Counselors. Our focus is to examine the code of ethics and then come up with their similarities and differences. This is done generally for the entire codes of ethics in section one. Later in section two, we major in three diverse areas of competence, fee, and sexual intimacies in the counseling profession. Here we shall also focus on the similarities and differences that arise on the code of ethics ...

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CAREERS IN HUMAN SERVICES

In the “Helping those in need: Human service workers” the Occupational Outlook Quarterly (2011) defines Human Services as the provision of “a variety of services aimed at improving clients’ lives” (23). Consequently, Human Services encompass different approaches depending on the nature of a particular problem and the services required in solving said problem. Evidently, it is impossible to cover all the careers that qualify and fit the characteristics of human services. However, it is plausible to look at a particular problem from different fields that could in turn be made up of a variety of professionals all of whom qualify as ...

Literature Review

Sexuality and gender are social constructs, which may differ depending on the norms of society (Reis & Carothers, 2014). In a heterocentric society, certain attributes are reserved to describe either male or female individuals, with characteristics such as aggressive and strong being relegated to males and women being considered as more caring and emotional (Reis & Carothers, 2014). However, not all individuals fit neatly within the categories dictated by society and the challenges of individuals who are treated as “outliers” of society’s norm can be overwhelming, leading to emotional and physical distress, bullying, and social inequalities that have the ability to impact ...

Psychology

Warm greetings! I have written to your office to endorse my former student who applied for the counselor post in your community mental health center. As her former training director, I believe that I am capable of sharing with you her competencies as a rightful candidate for the counselor position. I have known the applicant for more than four (4) years while pursuing her graduate work in Counseling Psychology. She recently graduated her Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology with community mental health as her main field of specialization. She was a consistent A-student since she started her graduate work. ...

Ponterotto, J. G. (2009). A Multicultural Competency Checklist for Counseling Training Programs. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 23(7), 11-20. This article is useful because it sets the foundation into the topic of multicultural competency. This article focuses on the major facets that have been a source of multicultural incompetency in society. Six important themes are addressed in this article. The first important theme that is tackled by the author of this article is the idea of minority representation. The author acknowledges that minority are inadequately represented in some key facets of society. This non-representation has created a scenario ...

Identify the original theory and current theoretical model you use in counseling

The purpose of the lecture is to explore counseling psychology in terms of its development and inception from different perspectives. The discussion attempted to provide the unique characteristics of counseling psychology as being different from clinical psychology. In as much as these two fields of counseling have been known to have similar theoretical practices and knowledge, counseling psychology for a long time has been known to hide under clinical psychology. However, the most distinguishing factor between the two practices is the characteristics of client population whereby clinical psychology addresses patients who are mentally ill with psychological disorders (Goldenberg, & Goldenberg , ...

Counseling is a method of that allows change or choice to reduce uncertainty but it does not necessitate the directing or giving of advice to a client to take a certain course of action. Counseling happens when a psychotherapist counsels a patient in a confidential and private setting to investigate, loss of a purpose and direction, a problem the patient has or distress they may perhaps be experiencing or their frustration with life. Counselors’ do not exploit or judge their patients in any particular way. Nevertheless, counseling is all the time done at the request of the patient as no individual may appropriately be compelled to go ...

‘and the two will become one flesh. Hence, they are no longer two, but one’ (Mark 10:8) and that, ‘Let no man split a part what God has joined” are the prominent matrimonial verses extracted from the Holy Bible. These are clear justifications of God’s healthy and happy intentions for man. They strongly support the three goals of then Christian matrimony: cooperation between the couple; procreation and protection of one another against adultery. In deed, from the excerpt, it can be envisioned that this young couple is actually in jeopardy. Even if Bill and Sally have been dating ...