IMPACT OF FACILITATIVE COUNSELING SESSIONS ON PSYCHOSOCIAL PROBLEMS FACED BY YOUNG ADULT WOMEN

Abstract

Facilitative Counseling is a learning oriented process, carried on a simple one to one social environment, in which the counselor professionally competent in psychological skills and knowledge seeks to assist the client by methods appropriate to the latter’s needs and within the context of the total personal programme. Counseling techniques involve active listening, emphatic understanding, releasing the pent up feelings confronting the client and so on Counseling therefore is offered to only those individuals who are under serious problem and need professional help to overcome it (Jacobs 1994 and Biswalo 1996). The goal of facilitative counseling is to help individuals overcome many of their future problems. Naturally counseling has to minister to a variety of problems, such as educational, vocational, marital, parental and personal. The major objective of all counseling is to help individuals become self-sufficient, self-dependent, selfdirected and to adjust themselves efficiently to the demands of a better and meaningful life (Burks and Steffire, 1979).