Clients often come to counselors to change
their lives in some way,
such as to become
more assertive. As likely, clients seek
counseling as
a result of some
change, prehaps a death or different working conditions.
Clients ofren
find themselves in the midsyt of some change they do not
understand or
over which they have little control. In
its most general
form, counseling
provides a context for such change. How
to evplain any
change, how to
assess its direction or to predictg irs effects, and how
to understand the
meaning any change may have for the client are questions
the effective
counselor must ask.
The counselor relies on the concepts of
human development to assess
the client's
level of functioning and uses different developmental theories
as lenses through
which to view the client. The
professional counselor
appreciates that
people are different but users knowledge of developmental
theory to
understand these differences within the context of a universal
human process.
Because so much of their work involves
making decisions related to
human
development, counselors need to understand the assumptions upon which
such decisions
are made. Counselors need to understand
all developmental
theories and how
these theories are applied to counseling to be effective.
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