ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF COUNSELOR AND COUNSELOR---COUNSELEE RELATIONSHIPS

 ROLE OF COUNSELOR ( ACCORDING TO WILLIAMSON)

RESPONSIBILITIES OF COUNSELOR (ACCORDING TO STEWARD)

COUNSELOR -‐---- COUNSELEE RELATIONSHIPS 

ROLE OF COUNSELOR 

E.G.WILLIAMSON:-- has explained the role of a counselor in detail an edited book "THEORIES OF COUNSELLING " this book was edited by " BUFORD STEFFIRE AND W. HAROLD GRANT. The summarization of role of counselor explained in this book is an follows:----

1)- TO HELP STUDENTS IN CHANGING THEIR BEHAVIOUR:--The aim of the counselor is to help the students in changing their behaviour through learning. The pupil also want to know maximum about their own characteristics, their abilities,their interest and their behaviour etc.

2)- TO HELP THE STUDENTS IN MODIFYING THEIR BEHAVIOUR:-- The aim of the counselor is to help the students in MODIFYING their behaviour through learning. From this point of view the counselor is just like a teacher. Both the counselor and the client decide which behaviour is to the change. They can also decide whether this change behaviour is focused on educational or vocational decision.

3)- TO ASSEMBLE AND EXAMINE INFORMATION:-- The counselor along with the client collect the information about the client and his surroundings. They think over the importance and utility of these information. Also they reject some of the informations and some are followed up. Each item of the information can be a source of hypothesis. 

4)- COUNSELOR ASKS QUESTIONS:- The counselor asks question when he think is proper. The form of these question is such that the counselor can get the information to under stand the client. The counselor should use these questions very carefully. 

5)-TO GIVE SUGGESTIONS:- Sometimes the counselor listens only carefully. Rest of the time he remain busy in conversation with the client. He puts some general suggestion to. Sometimes general suggestion are given in the initial stage of the counselling and specific suggestion later on.

6) TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO COUNSELEE:-- The counselor also provide information to the client. These information are regarding the client, about social environment, about selected psychological concepts and regarding the decision making process sometimes information are gained in the form of figures from the test scores, school records or other resources. At some occasion the counselor discovers the feelings, attitudes and values and present the same information obtained from the client to the client again.

7)- THE INTERPRET THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE COUNSELEE:-- The counselor interpret the information about the client this job is concerned with the organisation of the data,but Sometimes it is of different type of activity because in this more attention in paid towards the client reaction for such information. 

8) TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT COUNSELEE'S SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT:-- The counselor makes available the information about counselee's social environment such as information about employment, schools, economic sources, community facilities and services training programmes,direction of progress of responsibilities of citizens etc.

9) - TO PROVIDE INFORMATION REGARDING CONCEPT OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR:-- In the process of counselling the counselor goes on providing information regarding the concepts of human behaviour. For example the counselor discusses about the concept of traits and factors with the client for a long time. He can supply some such information which make the pupil clear about their intelligence, academic, ability, mechanical aptitude, clerical aptitude etc.

10)- TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES:-- The counselor can provide information about other psychological principles. Other person are unable to understand human nature. This nature becomes the cause of anxiety. By providing information about these principles the counselor can help the client by interpreting such information associating with other available data. 

11)- TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT DECISION MAKING PROCESS:-- The role of the counselor also includes providing information to the client about decision making process. He can review these decision to in association with the client which have been taken earlier by the client.  He can explain the client that the decisions are taken gradually. 

12)- COUNSELOR AS AN ADVISOR:-- The counselor and act as an advisor too. He can advise the pupil to delay the decision to make tentative decisions to gather more information to discuss with others, about the decision or to take test.

13)- CONVERSATION OF COUNSELOR WITH OTHERS:-- The counselor can converse with other persons to confidently in addition to the conversation with the client. This conversation would be the part of the counselling . The counselor can talk to the parents, teachers, employees or friends. 

14)- TO ASSEMBLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE COUNSELEE:-- The counselor is also responsible for collecting information about the counselee in addition to the informations collected by others. The counselor can verify the school health and work records and other information about the counselee.

15)- TO COLLECT INFORMATION REGARDING THE RELEVANT ENVIRONMENT OF THE COUNSELEE:-- The counselor gather information regarding the relevant environment in which the counselee lives or can live in future. He collect information regarding schools occupation and communities.

16)- TO ASSEMBLE NOMATIVE DATA:-- Out of the important tasks one important task of the counselor is to called normative data. The scores collected from any test are meaningless if these are not compared with the scores of person whose characteristics are known. Most of the tests have many norms. The counselor is to decide which norm would be appropriate for comparison. 

RESPONSIBILITIES OF COUNSELOR 

ACCORDING TO STEWARD

1)- To help the pupil to determine the value of his experiences. 

2)- To collect the base material concerning the person. 

3)- To understand the needs and problems of a person.

4)- To hold a meeting. 

5)- To establish coordinates in between the school and family, school and the class. 

6)- To maintain coordination among the school activities. 

7)- To establish coordination between the progress in education and social contacts.

8)- Group guidance. 

COUNSELOR----- COUNSELEE   RELATIONSHIP

Guidance and counselling in the early stage of its development was counselor-centered in the sense that the counselor assumed the responsibility of telling the counselee what course or which jobs were most stuible for him or he was fit for what the new trend assert that the responsibility to take such decisions would be that of the counselee himself. The counselor or the guidance worker should create a situations in which it becomes easy for the individual to arrive at some decision. This is done by providing needed information by discussing and interpreting the reactions of the counselee . Modern trend is not to make a choice or decision for the counselee or directing his choice but to help him to make the choice himself. The trend emphasizes that all counselee -centered . It is help given to the counselee to develop in to an independent and self reliant individual who can solve the problems himself and can take decisions at his own the present as well as in future.  The developing trend has been to given the counselee an increasingly responsible role in his own guidance.