Throughout the counseling in training program, students learn to increase their awareness in knowledge of counseling, culture, society, and ethics of counseling. Students also learn about themselves in the sense of their own strengths and weaknesses, as well as their desire as to what field and direction they wish to continue their education and possibly career in.
I have noticed out of the many helping fields, there are four which hold high positions in the mental health field, 1) Psychiatry. 2) Psychology. 3) Social Workers. And 4) Counselors. However, each one of them has their own different goals and responsibilities. Psychiatrists being more into working in the medical field and prescribing medications for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, …show more content…
Such as, to help those in need, to make sure people feel like they have someone to talk to who will listen, care, and understand them, to help others live a less distressful life. Also, self-oriented motivations are motivations which may be internal in the counselors’ life. Such as, discovering solutions to their own issues in their life through helping others’ issues, having a belief or value of helping others, or even getting excitement from helping others. Self-oriented motivations can also come as altruism, personal growth, and cultural or religious insight (Hill, …show more content…
Factors which make up a counselors’ professional identity are, career development, associations, accreditation, capability, ethics, certifying, concentration, morals, role perception, self-concept. Although developing a professional identity in counseling is done during the years of learning and possibly after graduating their masters’ program. Counselors in trainings’ professional identity would be while in the learning process and is defined through the educators and mentors. It is the educators and mentors who have already developed a professional identity and help shape the counselors in training through education and supervision (Coppock,
I have noticed out of the many helping fields, there are four which hold high positions in the mental health field, 1) Psychiatry. 2) Psychology. 3) Social Workers. And 4) Counselors. However, each one of them has their own different goals and responsibilities. Psychiatrists being more into working in the medical field and prescribing medications for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, …show more content…
Such as, to help those in need, to make sure people feel like they have someone to talk to who will listen, care, and understand them, to help others live a less distressful life. Also, self-oriented motivations are motivations which may be internal in the counselors’ life. Such as, discovering solutions to their own issues in their life through helping others’ issues, having a belief or value of helping others, or even getting excitement from helping others. Self-oriented motivations can also come as altruism, personal growth, and cultural or religious insight (Hill, …show more content…
Factors which make up a counselors’ professional identity are, career development, associations, accreditation, capability, ethics, certifying, concentration, morals, role perception, self-concept. Although developing a professional identity in counseling is done during the years of learning and possibly after graduating their masters’ program. Counselors in trainings’ professional identity would be while in the learning process and is defined through the educators and mentors. It is the educators and mentors who have already developed a professional identity and help shape the counselors in training through education and supervision (Coppock,