Counselling helps people identify issues, difficulties and problems caused by thoughts, feelings and emotions and encourages them to respond and make progress towards resolution. Whilst a little bit of stress provides workers with the motivation to increase productivity and efficiency, too much stress can be counterproductive.
The one who is providing the counselling process is called a counsellor
And the one who receives the counselling is termed as counselee or client
Now counselling is usually classified into 4 which are namely
Telling,Manipulating,Advising ,Counselling
Counselling can be the answer to several problems like self-esteem, …show more content…
Evidence drawn from a sizeable treatment group suggested that such counselling leads to an increased sense of wellbeing. Another study found that workplace counselling contributed to “significant improvements on most attitude-to-work factors: opportunity for control, skill use, job demand, clarity, feeling valued, interpersonal contact, competence, work spill-over, adequacy of pay and job satisfaction”. To put it another way, counselling leads to happier, more positive and secure …show more content…
• Improved communications skills and effective language patterns.
• The ability to defuse anger and frustration.
• The ability to identify limitations, and to work with others at resolving difficulties.
• The skills and knowledge to minimize stress in the workplace.
How Effective is Workplace Counselling?
Providing psychological therapy for stressed employees can have many beneficial effects. Counselling in the workplace can help reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, improve mental health, lower levels of sickness and increase job satisfaction and commitment. It provides an effective method of understanding the pressure caused by occupational stress and offers a supportive remedy.
Whilst the provision of counselling services is not widely available through employee schemes and programmes, a counselling referral can be obtained through a GP. With many workers now choosing to work part-time or reduced hours and short-term contracts, employers may become less sympathetic towards stress-related illness and may not be as understanding when burn-out affects an