Counseling

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In this article, the writer discusses that the counseling relationship allows the patient to find support when the world seems crazy. The writer notes that the counselor attends to the issues that patients bring in whenever they find anxiety is keeping them from living life with a feeling of satisfaction. Counseling helps show those who seek counseling that they have inner strengths and abilities to manage all their challenges. The writer notes that counseling is a unique relationship in which the counselor's job is to hold up a mirror for the client to see himself or herself.

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"The counselor attends to the issues that patients bring in whenever they find anxiety is keeping them from living life with a feeling of satisfaction. Counseling helps show those who seek counseling that they have inner strengths and abilities to manage all their challenges. Counseling is a unique relationship in which the Counselor's job is to hold up a mirror for the client to see himself or herself in. We all have experiences in which we can't see things about ourselves without a mirror."
"The counselor has learned ways to hold the mirror different ways, so that the patient can see themselves from angles from which they have never observed themselves, doing so in a caring and skillful way, as they have studied how to do so for many years. Yet the counselor and patient work as a team to make positive changes in the client's approach to life."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Career and Practice Information." American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. AAMFT. 2007. <http://www.aamft.org/faqs/index_nm.asp> and <http://www.aamft.org/resources/Career_PracticeInformation/career.htm>.
• Condic, Kristine. "Counseling: Resources for students, consumers, and professionals." College and Research Libraries, Vol. 66, No. 6. June 2005.
• "Counselors." USDL (United States Department of Labor).4 Aug 2006. <http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos067.htm>.
• Faiver, Christopher M.; Ingersoll, Elliott, R,; O'Brien, Eugene M.; and McNally, Christopher. Explorations in Counseling and Spirituality: Philosophical, Practical, and Personal Reflections. New York: Wadsworth Group. 2000.
• Gladding, Samuel T. "Effective Group Counseling. ERIC/CASS Digest. Greensboro, NC: ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services. 1994.

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