Counselling In The Indian Culture

2/6/2016

Special Articles / Shankar Pathak / Social Work and Social Welfare

Counselling is a form of psychological help provided by professional persons to people who need it in order to cope with their problems. Such help is offered in a face-to-face relationship through discussion between the counsellor and the counsellee. There is no agreement on what constitutes counselling and how it is different from case work and psychotherapy. And there are different types of counselling based on a large number of psychological theories. The term counselling has been in use in social work literature since the early thirties. Almost all authors on case work consider counselling as a part of case work. It was classified as one of the techniques of direct treatment (psychological help) by Hamilton.

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