COUNSELING

Counseling

Counseling

Introduction

The need for advice in organizations is increasing. As determinants of increased consulting needs of individuals, teams and organizations as a whole are increasing, the immensely growing complexity of organizations is also increasing. The multiple decision requests that pace intensification and technological progress, the dissolution of the world of work and finally globalization, with the associated with their needs, opportunities but also crises are the factors that should be taken care of. At the same time, the boundaries between life-world and the world of work-related counseling are increasingly flowing.

Discussion

Business, public administration, health care and psycho-social sector are looking for support in the area of ??team development, supervision, organizational consulting and coaching, as a specified consulting services for executives to increase the efficiency of their work, but is also seeking answers to questions of Work find-life balance, of dealing with many contradictions, dilemmas and diversity in the post-modern world of work (Rogers, 2004, pp. 20-27). To obtain self-reflection and action orientation through counseling is the basis for maintaining organizational functioning, restore performance, or as a growth stimulus. Against the background of increasing skills shortages and increasingly diverse workforces (demographic change, cultural background, gender) moves beyond counseling as individually tailored tool for employee retention and reduce complexity in the foreground.

The professional standards and the protection of many methodological advisory services even leave much to be desired. The consultancy has a science project-like structure because they must combine disciplinary knowledge from psychology, economics, sociology, education, work science and philosophy. The research and development concept is realized in cooperation with companies and experts from the consulting practice.

Historical Development of Counseling Theory and Research

The field theory and methodology of counseling contributes to the development and empirical foundation of science by consulting the following research priorities (Cooper, 2008, pp. 14-18):

Effectiveness research in psychotherapy and counseling (supervision and coaching)

Development of counselors and psychotherapists personality

Teaching of psychotherapy and counseling training

Quality assurance in organizational and personal services

Change processes of post-modern work environments and their challenges in consultancy

Gender equality in organizations

Demographic change in organizations

Leadership development in the international context

Counseling can be viewed in two ways: as an institutional system of a particular organizational structure and the specific action taken by the counselors to help individuals experiencing problems. The main aim of counseling is to optimize different aspects of life and the development of the human personality, and intermediate targets are: removal of disturbances and difficulties, prevention, and prognosis. That activity is closely related to the general concept of man and, depending on its many forms. Therefore, there are three main lines of guidance, based on an analysis of psychoanalytic, behavioral, cognitive and humanistic conception of man:

Prescriptive guidance - The personality of the individual, his experiences and self-esteem, an adviser to formulate weather and gives way to solve the problem by treating the recipient as a matter of action.

Counseling liberal - This is set to solve problem situations involving inner experience units can therefore self-knowledge, the release of fears and inhibitions. Advisor is focused on identifying ways ...