Goals of Counseling

1. Development Goals- assist in meeting or advancing the client’s human growth and development including social and personal emotional cognitive and physical awareness

2. Preventive Goals-Help the client avoid some undesired outcomes

3. Enhancement Goals- Enhance special skills and abilities

4. Remedial Goals- assisting a client to overcome and treat an undesirable development

5. Exploratory Goals- examining options testing skills trying new and different activities

6. Reinforcement Goals- help clients recognize that what they're doing thinking and feeling is fine

7. Cognitive Goals- acquiring the basic foundation of learning and cognitive skills

8. Physiological Goals- Involve acquiring the basic understanding and habits of good health

9. Psychological Goals- Aid in developing good social interaction skills, learning emotional control, and developing a positive self-concept

facilitating behavior change aims to foster a change in the behavior of their clients and lead them toward better lives

improving the client's ability to establish and maintain relationships some clients find it hard to open up to the people around them, and counselors help clients overcome this difficulty and improve their interpersonal relationship

enhancing the client's effectiveness and ability to cope people deal with changes differently some people may even find it hard to adjust to new things such as when a person experiences culture change or when a person loses a loved one

promoting the decision-making process, the counselor explores different aspects of physical emotional social mental moral, and spiritual. The counselor only helps clients identify their choices and their respective consequences guiding them in making an informed judgment

facilitating client potential and development counselor health clients maximize their potential they help them identify and overcome the challenges or obstacles that are stopping them from actualizing their goals