Presented by:

REBATO, Raissa P.
II 14 BSCIEBIO
Guidance and Counseling | Professor Calapardo

Non Directive
Counseling &
Eclectic Counseling

Non Directive
Counseling

Optical
Illusions

The forest has eyes

5 HIDDEN FACES

The mother and the child

Non Directive Counseling

Non Directive Counseling:

Central Features
Client or counselee centered
Counseling is growth experience
Non directive counselor should create an

atmosphere in which the client can work out his own

understanding.
Feeling aspects are stressed.
Counseling leads to a voluntary choice of goals and a
conscious selection of courses of action.
Woolf: effective in treatment of many types of
emotional problems

Non Directive Counseling

According to Warten these are the

following order in the non
directive counseling:

Non Directive Counseling

1. The individual or client comes for

help
2. The counseling situation is defined
3. Free expression of feelings regarding
the problem.
4. The counselor responds to the
feelings underlying the clients words

Continuation..
5. Full expression of negative feelings to

positive feelings.
6.The counselor accepts and recognizes the
positive feelings as he does the negative ones.
7. The period of release or free expression is
followed by a gradual development of insight.
8. The client perceives the decisions he must
make and the possible courses of action open
to him.

Continuation again...
9. The client begins to translate insight

into action.
10. Further growth takes place with
deeper insight.
11. Increased positive action of the
client
12. A decreased need for help is felt and
the relationship is ended.

Client centered Therapy

Diagnosis is to the client.
Behavior is caused.
Change in behavior =

change in perception

Giving of Information
Clients only need certain very specific

information
Functions:
1. To help clarify a choice.
2. To implement a decision.
3. To help client discover his real
problem.

Results of Non directive Counseling

If the following conditions are met:
1. The individual is basically responsible for
2.
3.
4.
5.

himself
The client has a strong drive to become
mature
The counselor is able to create a permissive
atmosphere
The counselors acceptance
The counselor refrains from any expression or
action

Results of Non directive Counseling

These results may take place:

The client will...

1. Express deep motivating attitudes
2. Explore his own attitudes
3. Arrive at a clearer realization
4. Choose his own initiative and
responsibility
5. Choose to behave in manner to achieve his
goal

Limitations

Clients lack of intelligence

Environmental situation
Age
Client refuse to admit that he has

a problem

Eclectic
Counseling

What is eclectic counseling?

Composed of elements drawn from various

sources; based on concepts from the views of

others
Happens when a counselor tries to
incorporate in his practice both directive and
non directive concepts
Thorne: the most tenable orientation to the
theory and practice of personality counseling
It is the skill with which it is used.

5 steps in the counseling process (Thorne)

1. Diagnosis of the causes of personality
2.
3.
4.
5.

maladjustment
The making of a plan for modifying etiologic
factors
Securing proper conditions for efficient
learning
Stimulating the client to develop his own
resources
The proper handling of any related problems

Generalization of active (directive) or

passive (non-directive) methods
In general, passive methods should be used

whenever possible.
Active methods should be used only for specific
indication.
Passive permit emotional release
Law of parsimony should be observed at all
times
Give every client an opportunity to resolve his
problems non directively

Is eclectic counseling effective?

Counseling is a sort of superficial bag of tricks

technique.
The individual counselor could wear too many coats
with ease
There are certain techniques for certain individual in
a certain situation are more effective and better than
others
It is impossible to evaluate what is happening
Gives the counselor an easy avenue of escape at all
times.

Implication upon the Counselor

Each counselor derives his own eclectic

philosophy
Not static but relatively fluid.
The counselor believes that human
beings have both similarities and
differences.
Client centered system is the most
logical basis

Guideposts for Eclectic Counselors

Acceptance of the child as he is
Emphasis on growth of the clients capacity
An atmosphere of frankness and honesty
Breadth and depth knowledge about people
Ability to handle communication
Changes in the feelings of the client
Structuring of the limits

 A client who is known to

have an acute crisis of
conflicts must not be allowed
to terminate treatment until
all resources fail. Thorne