Science of Counselling

Science of Counselling:

• It uses the techniques and tool of industrial ,school,personal and clinical counselling.
• The Professional Practioners with special qualities including cognitive and behavioural knowledge.
• In Counselling point of view whether the person is sick or well,good or bad,whole or handicapped,they are not patients they are clients.

• One of the important issues discussed in counseling and psychotherapy is whether counseling is an art or a science.
• If it is an art, then it becomes part of the counselor’s innate affective and relational qualities.
• If it is a science, then it refers to the skills that the counselor has developed as a result of the training that he or she has taken in counseling.
• Such a skill seeks to spell out the process in the treatment so that others can utilise the same practices.
• In order to say that counseling is a science, it needs research based evidence in regard to its effectiveness in treating a client’s problem.
• There are a number of research studies that have shown that the counseling process as is being practiced is effective in treating the client’s problem.
• However there are also research evidences that show the contrary.