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Counseling Organization Members
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Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Counseling
In addition to the articles on this current page, also see the following blogs
that have posts related to Counseling. Scan down the blog’s page to see various
posts. Also see the section “Recent Blog Posts” in the sidebar of the blog or
click on “next” near the bottom of a post in the blog. The blog also links to
numerous free related resources.
Library’s
Coaching Blog
Library’s Leadership Blog
Similar to mentoring, there are many perspectives on the definition of counseling,
especially since the relatively recent popularity of personal and professional
coaching.
Traditionally, counseling might have been described as the activities conducted
by a person (the counselor) for another person (the client, friend, etc.) in
order to help that other person to solve a problem in regard to themselves,
someone else or some other situation. An untrained counselor might provide counseling
primarily by offering advice. A professional counselor might work with a variety
of other tools, eg, assessments, diagnosis, treatment plans, deep listening,
values clarification, direct advice, etc. The approaches and variety of tools
used by a professional counselor depend a great deal on their training and paradigms
(overall views) of the counselor, eg, psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic,
etc.
Today, there seems to be much ongoing discussion and debate
about the definitions and differences regarding coaching and mentoring,
and also counseling.
Various Perspectives on Counseling
Big
Dog on Counseling (scroll down to “Counseling”)
Confrontation
Counseling (telling an employee they have a problem and must face
it)
Performance
Counseling Practice Session
Also see Recognizing Performance Problems (“Performance Gaps”).
For the Category of Leadership:
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