Counseling Strategies

The counseling strategies which may serve  lo be useful are described herewith.

Individual Counseling: Individual counseling is personal counseling.  The first step  in  this is  to establish a  sense of  trust  and  a  therapeutic  alliance with  the patient so  as to  ensure  a  productive counseling session. A counselor can use several techniques to enhance the process of learning. These are:

Clarify goals at the beginning of the session

Start instruction in a positive manner

Approach the patient in a competent, quietly enthusiastic manner

Keep the session patient-centered

Focus on the topic to be covered

Adjust counseling approach as the need arises

Find out if the client understands what he is being told

Give honest, sincere praise for successes

Use teaching techniques that impart on more  than  one of the client's senses and actively involve him.