Question 1: In increased stress levels of working a reason for growth of counseling services. Comment on it.
Question 2: Why is development of counseling relationship an important phase of counseling process?
Question 3: What are the skills needed to assess the problems of clients?
Question 4: Illustrate different applications of counseling to hospital conditions.
Question 5: What is the probability of changing behavior of manager throughout counseling?
Question 6: State the special problems of counseling.
Question 7: The shift-in-charge, Mr. Ram is an industrial Chemical manufacturing plant finds out that one of his subordinates Mr. Sunder tends to take Mr. Ram's criticism of his indifferent work as pointing out a personal animosity. Mr. Ram understands that Mr. Sunder believes that Mr. Ram is trying to make things hard and unpleasant for him so that he might resign. Mr. Ram finds out that more recently Mr. Sunder has tended to avoid him completely.
If we see the problem with the help of Johari Window model, we will find out that Mr. Ram is equally responsible for this condition as he must have contributed to the development of it either by his inactions or improper actions in the past. Now, if Mr. Ram has to counsel Mr. Sunder to overcome this problem, how must he go about it?
The condition is such that Mr. Sunder has become emotionally included and has developed considerably hateful and suspicious attitude towards his superior, Mr. Ram. The latter is obviously unhappy about the condition. A thick communication barrier has developed between the two. They don’t see eye to eye. There is a total stoppage of inter-personal interaction and a total breakdown in inter-personal relationship. As a result, the work suffers. The onus of correcting this condition is on the superior, Mr. Ram.
Propose a counseling framework that has to be followed by Mr. Ram.