Impact and need of psychological counseling in a school setting

Pages: 84-87
Ritu Harbola (Department of Psychology, H.N.B.G. University, Srinagar (Gharwal), Uttarakhand)

This study attempts to underline the importance of psychological counseling in a school setting. This study tells us about the importance of counseling and counselor, why a counselor is needed in school and its importance of counseling in a school setting .The researcher were two school counselors, a mental health counselor educator, counseling believed in the necessity of working together in order to help promote academic achievement for all students and remove all hurdles. In this study, counseling strategies for implementing, counseling impact and implications for school counselor practice and research are discussed. Counseling common meaning is to talk about problems with someone. One of two individuals has experiences and competence that the other does not have and problems are solved by communication in the process of counseling. The counselor through skillful questions ascertains what the problem is and what is the significance of the problem? Counseling may be a very important tool for the management, prevention and care of any problem .Counselor has the responsibility of providing a basic knowledge about the facts of education, subject and psychological support through proper counseling of students. Counselors deal with students’ problems like emotion, depression and other psychological problems. Good counselor may help in prevention of psychological problems, supporting students to make decisions in their own life. The counselor knows the correct facts from the students through the counseling process .The counselor guides the students in establishing relationships in various factors in the counseling process .Explain the important facts to the students which the students do not consider important. Indeed, counseling and counselors are the backbone of counseling services in school.