Give advice to tourists or provide information that tourists don't know. Including cognition and emotion, give positive attention to individuals and help them establish treatment methods and strategies. Guidance technology is a kind of consulting technology that has the most obvious influence on help seekers. Psychoanalytic school often guides the seekers to associate freely and find the root of the problem.
Behaviorism school often instructs clients to do various trainings, such as systematic desensitization, immersion therapy, relaxation training and self-confidence training. Gestalt school in humanism is used to being the guide of role-playing, so that help-seekers can experience thoughts, feelings and behaviors in different roles. The school of rational emotion gives guidance to all kinds of unreasonable beliefs of help-seekers, and replaces unreasonable ideas with reasonable ones.
Some consultants disapprove of using teaching techniques, such as non-teaching consultants. They are opposed to manipulating and dominating customers, rarely ask questions, avoid making decisions for customers and never give answers. At any time, they let customers decide to discuss their own problems, without asking questions that need to be corrected or asking customers to make recommendations.
In a word, they disapprove of the use of guidance technology, thinking that it is to impose the will of consultants on those who ask for help. However, most psychological counselors still use guidance technology frequently, which is considered to be the most helpful way to influence visitors.