Very helpful. Both sides of psychological counseling, namely visitors and consultants (psychologists), have different counseling motives. The motivation of visitors is to seek help, and the motivation of counselors (psychologists) is to help. Psychological counseling is not a simple discussion, but a psychological counselor helps visitors solve their psychological development or adaptation problems through discussion and other means.
The significance of help is: relieving the psychological pressure of visitors; Change tourists' wrong cognitive concept; Guide visitors to master self-adjustment methods; Help visitors re-establish social adaptive behavior; Promote visitors to know themselves better; Encourage tourists to explore and make use of potential positive factors.
Characteristics of psychological counseling
Interaction. Visitors to psychological counseling and counselors (psychologists) are two-way communication and interactive. That is to say, the visitor sends out information "stimulus", and the counselor makes a speech and behavior "response". At the same time, this response acts as a feedback information "stimulus" to the visitor, making him further send out information to stimulate the "response".
This requires the two sides to establish a natural, harmonious and trusting benign interactive relationship, so that visitors can freely express their feelings and come clean about the problem of asking for help. If both sides are suspicious and wary of each other, it will be difficult to achieve the purpose of psychological counseling.
Psychologically. Psychological counseling is limited to psychological problems. The scope of seeking help and assistance is the problems or difficulties in development or adaptation, and the means to solve psychological problems is to use special psychological methods. Although most psychological problems are directly caused by life events, if the focus of help and help is on how to solve specific life events, it will inevitably deviate from the original intention of psychological counseling.
Step by step. It is unrealistic to try to completely solve development problems or adapt to difficulties through a psychological consultation. This is not only because these development problems or adaptation difficulties are the result of long-term psychological and social factors, but also because the psychological and social factors themselves are extremely complicated.
Although the visitor's mood for help is urgent and he hopes to solve the problem at once, the counselor (psychologist) can't hope to solve it once and for all, but should inspire the visitor step by step and make demands step by step, so that he can gradually achieve greater success on the basis of lower-level success and finally solve the expected problems or difficulties.