ROLE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF

EFFECTIVE COUNSELOR

PREPARED BY:
ROSA BANAIRA
JENNY ELOSON
DOROTEA KASILAG
 •Prayer
•10,000 Reasons
 •PASS THE BALL
•(Warm Up Activity)
Activity 1. Do this activity on your own.
• List 5 skills you need in counselling:
1. ___________________________
2. ___________________________
3. ___________________________
4. ___________________________
5. ___________________________
 Topics to be dealt with

What is counseling ?
Why is counseling needed ?
What are essential qualities to become
a good counselor ?
Conclusion
 What is Counseling ?
Counseling is the means by which one
person helps another through purposeful
conversation
Counseling is a method of identifying
practical solution to an identified problem
 Why is counseling needed ?
To alleviate stress related problems
To assist people with mental disorders and addiction
To help develop strategies to cope with everyday
problems
To help people relieve the mental tension and relax
To provide necessary psychological support for the
physically different people
To help people understand the source of their anxiety
and problems
What are essential qualities to become a good counselor?
Communication Skills
Empathic and understanding
Respect and Non- possessive warmth
Positive Regard
Observant
Genuineness
Multicultural Competency
Commitment
Personal Knowledge
Professional and Counseling Competency
Ethical practice
Some natural ability required
Perfected by training
Ability to convey their message effectively
Helps in easy and quick rapport building with
the client
Empathic and
understanding

Ability to see the world through the other’s eyes

Ability to experience the feelings and experience of the
client
To see the client’s world from the client’s point of view
without being judgmental
Respect and Non- possessive warmth
Sensitivity,
Friendliness
Consideration
Willingness to ‘be there’ for the client
 Positive Regard
Able to accept the client without being
judgmental
Accepting a client
Client is both respected and valued
Observant

*Identify negative behavioral and thinking

patterns
*Listening to and observing their clients
*Tone of voice and body posture
Genuineness
Multicultural Competency

Ability to adapt counseling approaches, theories,

and techniques to make them culturally appropriate
for diverse populations.
Must also not hold any biases toward the client’s
background.
Respect the diversity of values espoused by other
cultures.
Must be able to set a given period of his/her
time for the treatment of the client’s ailment.
Should have a proper treatment plan which is
easily understandable and implementable by the
client.
 Personal
Knowledge/Skills

• Sufficient personal knowledge and understanding of what

counseling is all about.
• Must be self-aware, and must be in control of their feelings,
thoughts and emotions whilst working with clients
• Must be emotionally stable and non- reactive towards the
clients
Professional and
Counseling Competency

Utilize the various counseling theories in the

delivery of the counseling skills for the competent
treatment of the client.
Maintain a high interpersonal relation in
communicating opinions with the supervisor as
well as colleagues.
Ethics, which are the suggested standards of
conduct based on a set of professional values
and moral decision making regarding
professional behavior, are usually established
by a discipline's professional organization.
 Conclusion
Hence, several factors come into play in the making
of an effective counselor. The journey of a counselor
is an infinite one as he/she gets to learn new things
continually along the path of their choosing.
However, only those with an innate and genuine
desire to help others can ever succeed in becoming
an effective counselor. A strong desire combined
with persistent commitment will certainly one day
make a very effective counselor and happy clients.
Activity No. 2. Put check on the box.
• 1. Which of the following is NOT a good motivation for becoming a
counsellor?
 you like to give advice
 you have personal characteristics that you think would make you
a good counsellor.
 you have a desire to help others and have done some research
on counselling as a career
 you feel that counselling would be a personally rewarding career
 all of the answers are good reasons to become a counsellor
• 2. Which of the following could be considered a
personal characteristics of most skilled counselors?
 good interpersonal skills
 self-awareness
 emotional health
 an eagerness to learn
 all of the answers are characteristics of skilled
counselors
• 3. The basic foundational tools involved in developing
effective counselling relationships and a positive
environment for change are:

 microskills
 macroskills
 the therapeutic relationship
 listening skills
 empathy
4. Role playing a future situation (like job interview)
has been shown to help model effective behaviour
for when the situation actually arises:

 True
 False
5. People who want to lose weight have been shown to
benefit most from:

 Behavioral therapy models

 Therapy models that involve emotional exploration
 Therapy models that deal with thoughts and personal
beliefs
 Balanced combination of all of the above
6. Your close friend comes to you with an motional
dilemma that doesn’t seem to have any apparent solutions.
The most appropriate first response would be:

 take her mind off the immediate problem by talking

about something else
 Give her your complete attention and focus on
understanding the full extent of what she is feeling
 Brainstorm solutions that could help resolve the problem
•Video Presentation
 “ If it’s free, its advice; if you pay
for it, it’s counselling; if you can use either
one, it’s miracle. “

Jack Adams