What is counselling in relation to HIV AIDS?

HIV counselling is a confidential dialogue between a client and a counsellor aimed at enabling the client to cope with stress and take personal decisions related to HIV/AIDS. The counselling process includes evaluating the personal risk of HIV transmission, and discussing how to prevent infection.

What are skills in counselling?

Counsellors use counselling skills to help them better understand and listen to clients….The core counselling skills are described below.

• Attending.
• Silence.
• Reflecting and Paraphrasing.
• Clarifying and the Use of Questions.
• Focusing.
• Building Rapport.
• Summarising.
• Immediacy.

What is post HIV Counselling?

Post-test Counselling This is the kind of counselling you get after you have had the test. During this session the counsellor will: Give you your result. Let you express your feelings about being HIV positive or negative. Discuss ARV-PEP if you test HIV negative.

What communication skills does a Counsellor need?

The counsellor needs the following basic communication skills to do effective counselling:

• Attending. Attending refers to the ways in which counsellors can be “with” their clients, both physically and psychologically.
• Listening.
• Basic empathy.
• Probing or questioning.
• Summarising.
• Integrating communication skills.

What are the counseling techniques?

12 Most Common Approaches

1. Psychodynamic Counseling. Psychodynamic Counseling is probably the most well-known counseling approach.
2. Interpersonal Counseling.
3. Humanistic/Client-Centered Counseling.
4. Existential Therapy.
5. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
6. Mindfulness-Based Counseling.
7. Rational Emotive Therapy.
8. Reality Therapy.

Why is Counselling important?

Counselling can help you become more aware of how you are feeling, so that you can act – even through small steps – in ways that promote your mental health. When our mental health is stronger, we feel more prepared for challenges. We feel more resilient and less out of control when things become difficult.

What are the good qualities of a Counsellor?

Ten Important Attributes of a Counsellor

• Empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others.
• Discretion. Confidentiality is of upmost importance when you are a Counsellor.
• Patience.
• Compassion.
• Encouragement.
• Self Awareness.
• Open Mindedness.
• Flexibility.

What are the 5 Cs in counseling?

Consent, Confidentiality, Counselling, Correct Results
5Cs: Consent, Confidentiality, Counselling, Correct Results and Connection; 2015 – PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization.

What are the five Cs in Counselling?

KEY POINTS. The 5 Cs are essential for all HTS: consent, confidentiality, counselling, correct test results and connection to HIV prevention, treatment and care (see section 1.7).

What are the qualities of good Counsellor?

What are the 6 methods of counseling?

Fortunately, almost all of the many individual theoretical models of counseling fall into one or more of six major theoretical categories: humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, psychoanalytic, constructionist and systemic.